w(o|ei)rd machines @umbriel_ai

Joined October 2009
1/ Agentic LLMs can automate vuln detection. Very exciting, but doesn't address the hardest part (imo) of vuln research: prioritization. Can we reliably explore the search space and separate signal from noise? I wrote a paper (and OSS tool) to solve this. arxiv.org/pdf/2512.06155
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decouple your network proxy from your agent harness. you should be able to switch from `codex` to `claude` to `pi` while not losing any network egress guarantees.
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starting to regret this post due to all the llm replies :(
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oh, this is the JARM dude 👀
Announcing 3 Critical vulns for hundreds of millions of IoT, Firewalls, OT, and Military devices including: Palo Alto Networks, Comcast, D-Link, HP, Canon, Honeywell, GE, Oracle, Siemens, Rockwell, Digi, Lockheed Martin, Boeing... The vulns are with GoAhead Web Server which is a backend library used by these devices. There's a patch available from GoAhead but that doesn't mean there's a patch available for the devices yet -- that's up to the manufacturer. - TLS traffic over DHE ciphers have a 1-byte secret, "04", meaning anyone can decrypt connections to these devices and steal login credentials and session tokens if the client negotiated with DHE ciphers like the latest TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, which is extremely likely. - LibreSSL mTLS has been completely bypassed, meaning anyone can connect over mTLS. If you have one of these devices listening on the internet and are expecting mTLS to protect it from attackers, take it offline or patch asap. - OpenSSL Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) are not enforced, meaning if a user device is stolen or compromised, and you revoke that mTLS cert, nothing actually happens. There are a lot of other attacks this can be used for. These are critical because these types of devices run our world. Water systems, electricity, military, firewalls, critical infrastructure. foxio.io/blog/choose-your-ba…
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that fresh lean installation feeling
Replying to @notcatra
for personal computers, i usually just get a fresh install, then re-install packages as i need them. it's fun, it's a reminder of what i need, and it keeps my systems lean. i told her this and she didn't like it. 7/
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Zines for @unpromptedconf have arrived on site! 🔥 #Phrack73
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Lead us not in to penn station
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Replying to @manxlab
Critical thinking and handwritten poems
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must have missed the memo here because I still regularly have exam stress dreams
The adult equivalent of the "I forgot to study for the exam" dreams is the "I forgot to tell the landlord I moved out of this place years ago and now rent is due" dream
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feels like sandboxing could use a healthy dose of this
I am looking forward to the forthcoming golden age of security engineering. Like other forms of engineering, it's about designing for and building in resilience to some chosen degree of failures in complete systems. What most call security engineering today is really just sparkling security operations, especially if it is centered around responding to external events to protect what others have designed and built. This is necessary, but not sufficient to have a hope of pulling ahead of the attacks that are coming.
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I am evaluating secure sandbox surfaces for high-trust agent environments (benchmarking, SFT, expert on-policy supervision, outcome based RL, etc). Obviously there are some pre-baked solutions, one that is attractive is Docker's sbx (docker.com/products/docker-s…). Sbx runs agents inside isolated Linux microVM's with their own kernel and private Docker Engine. They use filesystem passthroughs and host-side bridges to facilitate file access, networking, mcp tool usage, credentials, etc. These microVM's offer a very strong execution boundary but obviously the brokers are a major attack surface. Looking through the changelog for sbx, the situation is a bit more grim than you would expect. Between June 1 and today (Oct 24) there are 9 CVE's including critical issues (like a macOS virtio-fs escape CVE-2026-77179). These look like typical logic issues you might expect. What's interesting though is that the changelogs also reveal areas that got security fixes but no CVE. For example, a full broker mediated guest-to-host escape, shown in the poc below (on v0.39.0 before Sept 7). Some light reverse engineering was required since you don't get core implementation source. Pre-patch a sandbox could supply DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS through the guest-controlled host_env sent to the host browser bridge. On the Linux host, the bridge passed that environment to xdg-open, whose desktop-detection path invoked dbus-send, which accepts a "unixexec:" address leading to code execution.
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We're thrilled to have contributed a V8 vulnerability to one of this year's four $250K Chrome full chain exploits. The vulnerability was subtle enough that Google needed multiple commits to finally fix it. However, we would like to take a step further. To convince Fortune to smile upon us deterministically. We managed to use LLM-assisted formal verification to rediscover the bug. The same approach can prove security properties of functions and APIs. Will share writeup and more about formal verification work soon. We will build more Chrome full chains!
We just received a $250,000 Chrome Full Chain bonus! 🎉 We've claimed the second Full Chain bonus of 2026. Only two remain! Under the rules, every vulnerability had to be a non-duplicate 0-day, and the entire exploit chain had to be completed before any of them were patched. Huge thanks to @nebusecurity for discovering a V8 vulnerability in just a single day! Also, a big thank you to @_deayzl for collaborating with me on the V8 Heap Sandbox research. P.S. KVM escapes have been getting a lot of attention. I actually captured the Full VM Escape flag in KVMCTF about three months ago. Hopefully, I'll be able to share that research soon, too!
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have we considered making hacking illegal?
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agree with all of this. especially understanding the cost of prefill. "before local AI is banned" has motivated much of my learning (and purchases) in the past 24 mos. blog post likely incoming.
Before local AI is banned, learn how to host and tune your own models. Specific learning curves to understand for me were: - Offloading portions of newer models to SSD rather than RAM - Prompt caching configs - Preload tuning - the right choice of model for the task - pre optimized models for your hardware and harness - finding the fastest inference server at the web/api level
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"we're gonna need a lot more mathema^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsecuriticians"
Has your company added security headcount due to the recent vulnerabilities (last ~6-12 months)? i.e. hiring/hired security engineers, SOC analysts, detection engineers, etc
18%Yes
82%No
453 votes • Final results
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turingtest++: has an LLM ever made you laugh out loud? not just *forceful nasal exhale*. I've challenged various LLMs to write lol-worthy jokes and they fall completely flat. but perhaps "surprise" requires an external conscious entity. like how you can't tickle yourself.
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wake me up when we have LOLMs that can produce bangers like this xitter.cf/growing_daniel/status/…
Yeah I’ll be in the air when I jump off the Golden Gate Bridge
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ironically, Golden Gate Claude might have been our best chance
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`s/A/S/` is doing a LOT of work these days
New: I got a tip a little while ago about a shadowy Pentagon entity called "TSO" with a lot of money and a desire for offensive hacking tools. Turns out TSO is a new DoD agency. And it does a lot more than hacking. w/@JackDetsch and @paulmcleary politico.com/news/2026/10/22…
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why stop there? PHP's name was written in PHP
Everyone knows a programming language has to be written in its own language. PHP was clearly written in PHP
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The first rule of cybersecurity is to have fun and be yourself
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