Commenter references advanced AI release as precursor to widespread hacking capability
5 Oct 30 7:59 PM · 12d ago · 1 post · 2 comments · 2 sources · development 5 of 5
A commenter referenced the release of 'mythos' as a marker point, estimating a six-month window before similar AI hacking capabilities become operational in the wild.
“When mythos was released - I guesstimated that we had 6 months until hackers had similar enough capabilities that we would start to see real problems in the wild.”
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This isn't Linode getting attacked, it is telling customers that this zero click RCE CVE is pretty serious. You should patch ASAP.Did you know that GO defaults to listening on TCP connections with MPTCP, so anyone running GO programs listening on the internet (Caddy, traffic, etc) and are on an unpatched kernel now have a way to from attackers to…
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⚠️ Linode Status - Customer Security Advisory: CVE-2026-98432 https:// status.linode.com/incidents/nt 58zhx3pmgm # linode # cybersecurity
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> It feels like we hit an inflection point in the last week or so.This isn’t a new thing for Linode. A customer service panel vulnerability in the past was the reason Bitcoinica got hacked in the early bitcoin days:
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Why was the previous discussion of this flagged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299182 Is our new policy to stick our heads in the sand and pretend that CVEs don't exist? Because I'm not getting behind that!
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Anyone have any thoughts on what happens when banks/brokerages start getting hit in earnest? Think it's prudent to split single brokerage portfolios across multiple? Or do they have enough speed bumps in their procedures that they're not quite so vulnerable to major losses?
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When mythos was released - I guesstimated that we had 6 months until hackers had similar enough capabilities that we would start to see real problems in the wild. Unless there is some change in the trend line things are about to get really quite spectacular.
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What if the "inflection point" is just all of the low-hanging fruit that can be detected by agentic vulnerability scanning? If the low-hanging CVEs get patched we might not see a tsunami.
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Anybody recommend a CVE alert self-hosted app? E.G. I specify my software, OS’s, and versions and when a matching CVE is created I get an alert. Don’t want enterprise security products.
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I'm just waiting for someone to drop a real zero day on openssh or openvpn for before the real pants pooping starts.
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I've lived to see the day when half of the Hacker News front page is about hacks. What a time to be alive.
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