Vlad Ionescu retweeted
I spoke to @josephmenn this week about AI worms and wanted to add more color to my thoughts. What makes an AI worm different is that a model is capable of learning on the fly. This type of threat isn't here yet, but this is an example of an increasing shift that defenders are feeling.
We keep hearing the same theme from @runsybil customers: finding vulns is only the start. Teams need to patch and understand their attack surface in real time. Our job is to find and fix what's exploitable faster than attackers. Onward 🚀
Full article here: theguardian.com/technology/2…
the 90s are alive!
this week we saw
- OWASP and the FBI getting defaced
- F5 BIG-IP's pre-auth fully controllable overflow
- and now...
Kiwi used opus 5.5 to drop pokemon 0days and a gameboy worm. we're so back.
read all about it and how it feels to use opus vs. kimi k3 for research and exploitation
runsybil.com/blog/kimi-k3-vs…
A new take on a classic ctf challenge that unfortunately is widespread across the modern AI ecosystem.
If you rely on sandboxes in Python (for example allowing customer-controlled Jinja) this probably affects you and anyone can get shell.
We used a memory safety bug in CPython to escape a sandbox and hack a @grafana Cloud instance.
Read how we did it: runsybil.com/blog/python-san…
resident pro @BonJarber really killed it with this official set!!
Come find me at Black Hat and DEFCON this week for our custom @runsybil Magic The Gathering cards! Resident Pro Tour MTG player @BonJarber designed a kickass full set. We added these to the swag bags for @BSidesLV and we’re handing them out throughout the week 🫡
Vlad Ionescu retweeted
Come find me at Black Hat and DEFCON this week for our custom @runsybil Magic The Gathering cards! Resident Pro Tour MTG player @BonJarber designed a kickass full set. We added these to the swag bags for @BSidesLV and we’re handing them out throughout the week 🫡
Vlad Ionescu retweeted
Ari Herbert-Voss, Founder and CEO of RunSybil, shares how #BlackHat helps drive business exposure and build meaningful connections within the cybersecurity community. Be part of the conversations that matter. Register for #BHUSA today 👉 bit.ly/4eGuBiN
Vlad Ionescu retweeted
A lot has changed since the AIxCC last year. Today’s general-access models can find more vulns than last year’s finalists. In our AIxCC replay GPT-5.5 found 46 injected bugs vs the winner’s 33.
However, it only produced 10 valid PoVs and 10 valid patches. Opus found 37, with 29 valid PoVs and 23 patches.
Finding vulnerabilities is now the easy part - the hard parts are still prioritization, reproducible proof-of-vulnerabilities, patch validation, and keeping false positives under control.
.@DARPA gave 7 teams $135k to build custom AI systems that find and patch vulnerabilities. we achieved the same results with today's AI models and $600
Vlad Ionescu retweeted
Replying to @justdionysus
SAST vendors still (always?) sleeping it seems like and at least for fuzzing it seems not quite dead, but on life support. @daveaitel at OAIC last year: "every time you run a fuzzer, an angel loses it's wings"
runsybil.com/post/reproducin…
Vlad Ionescu retweeted
Behind every Black Hat badge is a story. A first talk. A shared drink.
A conversation that changed everything. Black Hat Stories dives into the moments that transformed Black Hat from a conference into a community.
🎬 Watch the Black Hat Stories full Episode with Ariel Herbert-Voss : youtu.be/zkSzT3G_Gz4
we got Opus 4.8 for @sshell_ and in a few hours he made Mario Golf do uncouth things, thanks @AnthropicAI
Replying to @runsybil @dariushoule
But seriously, we're hiring for roles that will report directly to our cofounder and CTO, Vlad (@ucsenoi)
• Engineering Manager
• Founding Product Manager
• Technical Program Manager
• SWE
• SRE/Infrastructure Engineer
runsybil.com/careers
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Vlad Ionescu retweeted
When Wired asked us to run Sybil against a vibe-coded AI research site, we couldn’t resist.
Thanks to @willknight for diving deep into our approach and what makes Sybil different from legacy scanners. This is just the beginning 😈
wired.com/story/i-watched-ai…
Proud to be an author on this. I worked on the human uplift and autonomous cyber portions of the evals and resulting paper that helped inform current model capabilities.
We have a really impressive team here, stay tuned
Vlad Ionescu retweeted
Updated with some details and links about CVE-2023-4039: a security weakness found separately by Azeria Labs' @Fox0x01 and Meta Red Team X's Tom Hebb
Canary-based stack-smashing protections in 64-bit Arm code built using GCC do not work for dynamically allocated variables
Arm's lawyers want to check assembly expert's book for trademark missteps dlvr.it/Svz03t
Vlad Ionescu retweeted
If you want to reproduce this bug with the PoC from the advisory on your x86/64 machine, here’s how:
During a @Fox0x01 training, Tom found stack smashing protection was broken for GCC AArch64 under a certain (not uncommon) condition.
GCC + Arm have fixed it, but lots of exploitable overflows will remain compiled in the wild.
Sometimes it is the compiler!
rtx.meta.security/mitigation…
















