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Trail of Bits found that only Go and vcpkg checked every download by default among 25 package managers facing a simulated malicious repository. Teams on the other 23 cannot assume a setting exists, since some tools need extra configuration and some lack the feature.
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OpenAI is reportedly in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, with no price disclosed. Crypto Briefing reported that CrowdStrike fell about 3% to around $254 on Oct. 14, Palo Alto about 4% and Fortinet more than 3%.
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Only two of 25 popular package managers verified every package they downloaded in a Trail of Bits test. Fewer than half checked lockfiles for tampering by default, leaving many open to a compromised repository that injects code, the post says.
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SK Telecom requires outside suppliers to submit a software bill of materials and now distributes BomLens on GitHub to help produce one. Its view of open-source risk in purchased software rests on how accurately vendors scan their own code.
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Trail of Bits has published SequenceHash and SequenceMAC, open C2SP specs for hashing several inputs together with SHA-2, BLAKE or RIPEMD. Protocols that hash concatenated inputs into commitments or proofs now have a written fix that does not require Keccak.
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The three escapes used a kernel bug disclosed weeks earlier, a libslirp flaw Debian 12 has yet to fix, and 0-days the agent found itself after QEMU was rebuilt from upstream. It is one researcher's account.
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Trail of Bits' agent-built Lean model of the Miden VM, backed by 95 machine-checked proofs, surfaced a way for a malicious prover to forge Falcon signatures. A dev.to account says the agents built tooling first, so that Miden's stack assembly could be reviewed at all.
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An Anthropic alignment lead put the chance of AI killing all humans within a decade above 10 percent. The four containment failures his company has disclosed are countable. Security practitioners say those are the numbers to work from.
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Trail of Bits says a malicious host could roll back a TEE-hosted threshold signer's storage and force nonce reuse that leaks its private key share. The firm's advice is to keep the protocol sound without the enclave and tie attestation to each MPC party's identity.
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Trail of Bits filed 27 private advisories against the local-first agent runtime, and OpenClaw rated 24 of them with no Critical findings. The count, not the worst entry, is what transfers to anyone whose agent branches work.
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SAML's security rests on XML signature validation, and most fielded implementations hand that job to libxmlsec. Trail of Bits says that dependency is the reason to deprecate the protocol and move SSO to OpenID Connect.
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A dev.to writeup pits Bifrost against LiteLLM on a shared four-core VPS, using the harness the Bifrost team maintains. The widest gap it reports traces back to a worker default the official LiteLLM image leaves unset.
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Six months before the review of Miden's zero-knowledge VM began, Trail of Bits set its agents to writing developer tooling for the project's custom assembly language, then reviewed the code with it.
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A two-week, $1m escape challenge against Vercel's Firecracker sandbox produced 1,285 reports. The most valuable one hit the Linux kernel networking stack that many clouds use to isolate tenants, and its CVEs are pending.
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The 26% clean-fix rate now quoted to keep coding agents out of patch work came from six hand-picked hard bugs, and 22% of the runs behind it instructed the agent to apply a fix known to be wrong.
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A practitioner's production setup keeps the entire trust model in /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf. The line counts he leans on put WireGuard at about 6 percent of OpenVPN's core daemon, and the speed claim comes without a test.
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Eigen Labs' ECDSA.Fail leaderboard took the resource score for one step of a quantum key recovery from 10.75 billion to 1.496 billion by July 26, while the defense side works to fixed dates in 2029 and 2030.
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OWASP's v1.0 standard says the payload is prose and the permissions belong to the host agent, which is another way of saying the SAST and SCA licences already on the books scan straight past the thing teams are installing this quarter.
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Trail of Bits gave a preview model one job: escape the sandbox on its author's Debian 12 host. The route worth studying needed only a published CVE and an unlabelled upstream fix commit.
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Trail of Bits found an authorization branch that compared a caller's balance against a supply figure the chain stops updating. Zero matched zero, and the check passed for everybody.
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