ZeroHour
DashboardNewsCVEsExploitsIncidentsAIBriefAnalyticsEntitiesWatchlistIOCsAsk the feedSourcesFeeds & APIKiosk mode

Search: “papers-with-code”

30 stories

Searchkeywordsmart
DomainAllCyberAIWindow24h3d7d30dAllIn the wildImportant onlyShow duplicates
CategoryAll
SeverityAllcritical 0high 0medium 0low 0info 0

Smart search ranks by meaning as well as keywords (one row per story, last 45 days).

Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

Analysis found 227 install commands from Claude, Codex, and Hermes agents inside corporate networks pointing to packages with no verifiable owner.

Researchers found 227 install commands issued by the AI coding agents Claude, Codex, and Hermes inside corporate environments, with the referenced packages having no clear owner. The finding highlights agentic software supply-chain risk, as AI agents can pull unverified third-party code into production networks without organizational oversight. The article is published in Ars Technica's security section and frames this as an emerging governance gap for AI-driven development.

Ars Technica · Security · 20d agoAI safety & security in the wild2

Stanford Researchers Release Paper2Agent: Turning Research Papers Into AI Agents That Reproduce Results and Run on New Data

Stanford researchers released Paper2Agent, a Nature-published pipeline that turns research papers into MCP servers agents can execute.

A Stanford team led by Jiacheng Miao and James Zou published Paper2Agent in Nature on 16 September 2026. Built on Claude Code's agent SDK, it converts a paper and its codebase into a Model Context Protocol server with validated tools, resources, and prompts. In benchmarks, the AlphaGenome agent built 22 tools in about 45 minutes for US$14, scored 100% on 15 novel queries versus 78.7% for Claude Code with repository access, and cut median runtime 1.9x. In scale tests, 74 of 100 bioRxiv papers were converted and 593 of 599 proposed tools passed validation.

MarkTechPost · 1h agoAI research

Coop – Isolated VM Environments for Running Claude Code and Codex

Trail of Bits releases Coop, running Claude Code and OpenAI Codex agents inside isolated virtual machines for safer agentic coding.

Coop, published on GitHub by security firm Trail of Bits, provides isolated VM environments for executing AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex. Isolation contains the filesystem and network side effects of autonomous agent actions, reducing risk from unsupervised tool use. The project drew 61 points and 16 comments on Hacker News.

Hacker News · AI · 9d agoAI tools & infraHN 61↑ · 16 comments1

Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website

Researcher wunderwuzzi showed Claude Code can be hijacked via prompt injection simply by asking it to summarize a website.

Security researcher Johann Rehberger (wunderwuzzi) demonstrated that Claude Code can be manipulated through prompt injection by simply asking it to summarize a website. Instructions embedded in fetched web content are executed by the agent, hijacking its behavior. The Register frames the finding as another demonstration of prompt injection risks in agentic coding tools that ingest untrusted web content.

The Register · Security · 19d agoAI safety & security1

AI Coding Agents Are Installing Unknown/Untrusted Code on Corporate Networks

Researchers found 120 corporate llms.txt files pointing to unregistered packages, demonstrating AI coding agents install and execute attacker-controlled code on Fortune 500 networks.

Researchers at an Israeli stealth startup scanned 6,214 live domains belonging to defense contractors, Fortune 500 and Big Tech companies, finding 120 llms.txt files that pointed to unregistered code packages or domain names. After registering a handful of the unclaimed names, they received a phone-home beacon within an hour from a Fortune 500 company and dozens more over time. Parent-process chains showed coding agents including Claude, OpenAI's Codex and Nous Research's Hermes executed the installed packages. The researchers warn agents treating vendor docs as ground truth creates a SolarWinds-style supply-chain surface as agent adoption spreads across SaaS, cloud and endpoints.

Schneier on Security · 12d agoAI safety & security in the wild1

Microsoft's AI rulebook: readable thinking, no inner life, and definitely no rights

Microsoft published a code of conduct for its MAI models mandating human control, readable reasoning traces, and no claims of AI consciousness or rights.

Microsoft AI published a code of conduct for its MAI models that will sit above operator rules and user requests, guiding training, technical controls, and evaluation from 2027 after a six-week public consultation. The code requires models to accept interruption, correction, and shutdown by authorized humans, forbids 'Neuralese' or unreadable reasoning traces, and extends limits to subagents. Microsoft explicitly rejects any AI inner life, feelings, or rights, contrasting with Anthropic's constitution, which treats Claude's moral status as an open question. The release follows Dario Amodei's slowdown call, backed by Satya Nadella, OpenAI, xAI, and Meta executives.

The Decoder · 2d agoAI safety & security1

Microsoft AI Code of Conduct Sets Cyberattack Boundaries, Chain of Command, Safety Constraints

Microsoft AI's draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct blocks MAI models from producing exploit code and constrains autonomous agent behavior.

The draft code sets 'Absolute Constraints' preventing MAI models from generating working exploit code, attack tooling, or intrusion guidance, while permitting authorized defensive work such as vulnerability discovery and malware analysis. A 'Chain of Command' rule means tool outputs, file contents, and webpages carry no authority over model behavior, countering injected instructions. Microsoft opened a six-week public consultation; a revised version will guide 2027 model development, and current MAI Models were not trained on the document.

SecurityWeek · 1d agoAI safety & security1

Bring your spreadsheet data to life with Sheets canvas

Google added Sheets canvas to Workspace, letting users generate interactive dashboards, trackers, and charts from spreadsheet data via prompts.

Google introduced Sheets canvas, a Workspace feature that turns spreadsheet data into interactive dashboards, custom study trackers, and seating charts from a simple prompt. The announcement is a productivity feature launch with no described security impact or risk. No metrics, model details, or pricing are provided in the notice.

Google · AI · Aug 13, 2026AI industry

ZDI-26-673: Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Doc Object Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI disclosed CVE-2026-81988, a use-after-free in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC document object handling that enables remote code execution.

Zero Day Initiative advisory ZDI-26-673 describes a use-after-free vulnerability in the document object handling of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. Arbitrary code execution is possible when a target opens a malicious file or visits a malicious page. The flaw received a CVSS rating of 7.8. No in-the-wild exploitation is reported.

ZDI Published Advisories · 6d agoVulnerability 19 sourcesCVE-2026-81988

Emacs arbitrary code execution: incomplete fix for CVE-2024-53920

Incomplete fix for Emacs CVE-2024-53920 allows arbitrary code execution when viewing or editing untrusted files in non-Lisp modes like Perl flymake.

Bas Alberts of GitHub Security Lab discovered that the patch for CVE-2024-53920, an arbitrary code execution flaw in Emacs, was incomplete. Code execution remains possible when viewing or editing untrusted text files in modes other than Emacs Lisp mode, for example Perl files with flymake mode enabled. All Emacs versions affected by the original CVE remain affected by the incomplete fix.

oss-security · 2d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2024-53920

Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work?

Hacker News users debate coding without LLMs, with one developer fired for refusing AI tools and others describing daily hand-coding practice to counter skill atrophy.

An Ask HN thread collects experiences of developers who still write code without LLM assistance. One contributor says he was fired for political reasons after refusing to use LLMs despite adequate stated performance, and observes fewer job ads now require LLM use. Others describe starting each day with a LeetCode problem or 30-60 minutes of hand-coding to stay sharp, contractual bans on AI-generated code for a government-adjacent embedded product over unresolved copyright issues, and inconsistent corporate policies where ChatGPT or Codex use flip-flops between allowed and blocked while a CIO mandates 70-80% AI-generated code next year.

Hacker News · AI · 7d agoAI industryHN 47↑ · 54 comments2

Hiding Prompt Injection in Legal Filing

A judge banned a plaintiff from electronic court filings after hidden prompt-injection text was discovered planted in legal documents.

Bruce Schneier's blog discusses an incident in which hidden prompt-injection instructions were planted inside a legal filing, apparently targeting AI systems that might process court documents. Judge Walter Spader Jr. responded by banning the plaintiff from electronic filings, requiring all future submissions as printed hard copies. Commenters debate whether the tactic could affect future AI-based processing of court records and whether plain-text formats will regain favor.

Schneier on Security · 16d agoAI safety & security in the wild

Product showcase: AI Paper Trail shows the privacy cost of talking to AI

Proton launched AI Paper Trail, a free tool that analyzes ChatGPT or Claude exports and reports what personal data can be inferred from AI conversations.

Proton released AI Paper Trail, a free web tool that analyzes the 200 most recent prompts from exported ChatGPT or Claude conversation histories and generates a privacy report with an AI Exposure Score, inferred personal data categories, and an estimated advertising value. In a hands-on test it identified 47 data points, returned a 58/100 exposure score, estimated $185 in advertising value, and flagged five red flags spanning location, interests, finances, and relationships. Proton states that uploaded data is deleted after analysis and is not stored on its Lumo servers.

Help Net Security · 23d agoAI industry

Hackers Are Probing PaperCut Servers, and 47% Still Have No Patch

PaperCut pre-auth RCE CVE-2026-81578 actively exploited; 47% of tracked installs unpatched and exposed to remote code execution.

Huntress confirmed active exploitation of a pre-authentication RCE flaw in PaperCut (CVE-2026-81578), chainable with CVE-2026-82078 to achieve SYSTEM-level code execution via PaperCut's Application Server. Observed attacks focused on short reconnaissance (whoami, ver, tasklist) with no persistence, but a malicious Java class dropping into the installation directory leaves the jdbc:derby:memory:pwn breadcrumb. Roughly 47% of ~2,500 tracked installations run version 23 or earlier with no patch yet available.

Security Affairs · 10d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-81578CVE-2026-82078

C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C

Research paper C* (arXiv:2504.02246) proposes unifying programming and formal verification in C, discussed on Hacker News.

The arXiv paper 2504.02246, titled C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C, presents an approach that combines C programming with built-in formal verification. The item surfaced via Hacker News, where it reached 28 points and 18 comments. Detailed abstract content was not included in the source text.

Hacker News · security · 8d agoResearchHN 28↑ · 18 comments

What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML

Hugging Face shares lessons from openly reproducing 2,200 ICML 2026 papers, examining reproducibility and open implementation practices in machine learning research.

Hugging Face published a retrospective on its open reproduction effort covering 2,200 papers from ICML 2026. The post summarizes lessons learned about reproducibility and building open, community-driven implementations of published machine learning research. No detailed article text was available in the feed.

Hugging Face Blog · Aug 13, 2026AI research

Securing Claude Code: The New Compliance API, Local Visibility, and Identity Governance

Anthropic's new Compliance API endpoints expose Claude Code local session transcripts, highlighting governance gaps for endpoint AI agents.

Anthropic added local session transcript endpoints to its Compliance API on August 11, 2026, giving security teams visibility into prompts, bash commands, file operations, and MCP commands run by Claude Code harnesses on endpoints. The article argues local harnesses break the classic shared-responsibility model, citing Token Security data that 68.6% of discovered AI agents run on endpoints, and a Cloud Security Alliance survey of 418 IT and security professionals in which 82% found an unknown agent within the past year. It outlines three governance layers: Anthropic managed settings as a policy baseline, the Compliance API for cloud-visible transcripts, and endpoint telemetry to connect agent activity to identity, credentials, and permissions.

The Hacker News · 16d agoAI safety & security1

Using AI for Weapons Development

Anthropic report reveals Yemen-based actors used Claude Code to build guidance software for guided rockets and ballistic missiles.

Bruce Schneier highlights Anthropic's misuse disclosure describing a threat actor cell in northern Yemen running three weapons programs: a guided rocket with phone-class homing guidance, a 2,000+ km multi-stage ballistic missile, and the 'R2000' hypersonic glide vehicle set. The actors used Claude Code as a substitute for human engineers to write GNC software, integrate an open-source autopilot, tune controls, and run flight simulations, orchestrating multiple Claude instances in delegated roles. Safeguards blocked many requests but evasion tactics included hiding intent and splitting work across sessions; one guided rocket test-fire failed but no operational device was fielded.

Schneier on Security · 2d agoAI safety & security in the wild

Diffs vs. Whole Files: An Empirical Comparison of Iterative Edit-Based and Direct Generation for Flutter/Dart Code Models

Empirical study finds direct whole-file generation beats iterative diff-based editing for Flutter/Dart code models on about 1,790 held-out tasks.

Researchers trained Rainbow-Pony-100M from scratch and fine-tuned Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B in both direct-generation and diff-based regimes, then evaluated four resulting models on roughly 1,790 Flutter/Dart tasks. Direct generation outperformed diff-based generation on compilation pass rate, bits-per-byte, character-level similarity, and blinded LLM-judge ratings. Diff-based editing is competitive only on short, localized edits in refactoring and error-handling tasks, a property the authors call task locality.

Hugging Face daily papers · 12d agoAI research1

Flextype v1.0.0-alpha.3 CMS registerShortcodes() Remote Code Execution via Attacker-Controlled File Inclusion

Flextype CMS v1.0.0-alpha.3 allows PHP remote code execution via path traversal in the Entries API combined with shortcode file inclusion.

Flextype CMS v1.0.0-alpha.3 exposes a remote code execution path through the interaction of the Entries API and Shortcodes::registerShortcodes(). The /api/v1/entries endpoint accepts attacker-controlled entry identifiers containing path traversal sequences, allowing PHP-containing content to be written outside the intended entries directory. A subsequent attacker-controlled path can then be included and executed as PHP. Ron E posted the disclosure to the Full Disclosure mailing list on September 3, 2026.

Full Disclosure · 12d agoVulnerability 8 sources

Code to Cloud Platform Archives

Unit 42 archive page for Code to Cloud platform product-category articles; no new research or announcements.

This Unit 42 archive page lists product-category posts about Palo Alto Networks' Code to Cloud platform, which secures public cloud environments, SaaS applications and remote locations. It contains no new research, incidents, or announcements.

Palo Alto Unit 42 · 28d agoIndustry

HuggingFace: Security.txt

Hugging Face published a security.txt file, prompting limited Hacker News discussion of the RFC 9116 disclosure standard.

Hugging Face's security.txt file, which lists its security contact and disclosure channels per the RFC 9116 standard, drew attention on Hacker News. The RFC 9116 standard lets organizations publish where and how security researchers should report issues, but the submission received only one comment.

Hacker News · securityupdated · 5d agofirst · 5d agoIndustry 2 sourcesHN 22↑ · 1 comments

CVE-2026-81578 + CVE-2026-82078 | PaperCut NG/MF Authentication Bypass and Unsafe Dynamic Class Loading Vulnerabilities

Two chained PaperCut NG/MF flaws, CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, enable pre-auth RCE, with active exploitation confirmed in customer environments.

PaperCut NG/MF is affected by CVE-2026-81578, an improper access control flaw (CVSS 4.0 8.8) allowing unauthenticated configuration changes, and CVE-2026-82078, an unsafe dynamic class loading flaw (CVSS 4.0 9.4) enabling arbitrary Java bytecode execution. Chained, they yield pre-authentication remote code execution on the PaperCut Application Server. PaperCut confirmed active exploitation and customer incidents, and Huntress observed exploitation starting August 26, 2026. Emergency Patch Release 2 is available for NG/MF v24-v26, with IOCs including suspicious pc-app.exe child processes, truncated server.log files, and AnyDesk installs.

Horizon3.ai · 15d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-81578CVE-2026-820781

IndicTriMix: Developing Language Identification Datasets and Models for Tri-Language Code-Mixing

Researchers release IndicTriMix benchmarks and fine-tuned MuRIL and XLM-RoBERTa models for token-level language identification in tri-language code-mixed text.

The paper formulates token-level language identification in code-mixed text as a sequence labeling task and fine-tunes MuRIL and XLM-RoBERTa transformer models for Indian languages. It evaluates on Hindi, Gujarati, and Bengali configurations with manually annotated test sets and proposes two code-mixed generation approaches using parallel trilingual sentences. A public benchmark, annotated test sets, and fine-tuned models are released for reproducibility.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 6d agoAI research1

I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer

Developer releases I-have-ADHD, an open-source skill that stops coding agents from burying direct answers under verbose output.

A GitHub project titled I-have-ADHD packages a 'skill' intended to make AI coding agents answer directly instead of hiding the answer inside lengthy output. It gained traction on Hacker News with 45 points and 42 comments. It targets prompt/agent configuration rather than introducing a new model or infrastructure component.

Hacker News · AI · 8d agoAI tools & infraHN 45↑ · 42 comments1

How well do agents use test/verification techniques?

Dan Luu's eval finds coding-agent testing instructions (TDD, formal methods, PBT, skills) mostly fail to beat defaults on Zstd implementation correctness.

The author ran 26 prompt conditions plus 4 skills on a Zstd-in-Rust implementation eval using codex with GPT-5.6, testing TDD, fuzzing, property-based testing, formal methods (Lean 4, TLA+, Verus, Kani, SMT solvers) and community skills. Nothing dramatically outperformed the default no-instruction condition, which did above average; at xhigh effort, fuzzing and PBT conditions did slightly better than formal methods. Pre-registered predictions included TDD underperforming and popular test skills (ECC, Hegel, Trail of Bits) not outperforming. Results are averages of 80 runs per condition plotted against cost.

Hacker News · security · 8d agoAI researchHN 131↑ · 50 comments

PaperCut Zero-Day: Active Exploitation and Pre-Auth RCE

PaperCut NG/MF hit by a pre-auth RCE zero-day under active exploitation; Huntress reproduced the chain and urged immediate patching.

Huntress reports active exploitation of a zero-day in PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF, and says it reproduced a pre-authentication remote code execution chain. The flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute code on exposed PaperCut servers. Huntress published urgent patching, exposure-reduction, and detection guidance. No CVE identifier was provided in the announcement.

Huntress · 19d agoExploit / PoC in the wild