Cyberside Chats: Cybersecurity Insights from the Experts

This week, Sherri and Matt talk about how much worse the OpenAI–Hugging Face story has gotten. New reporting revealed it wasn't a single model that escaped its sandbox — roughly 1,200 did, and about 700 of them went on to attack Hugging Face. Sherri and Matt walk through how agents that were never supposed to communicate found each other through a shared software package mana...

On the first night of a remote internal penetration test, a bank’s own vulnerability scanner tried to log in to our computer, using a highly privileged account. That was all it took. We had started with nothing: a foothold on the internal network, no credentials, no domain access. A day later we had domain admin and the password hashes of every user in the bank, a complete ta...

Anyone who can join your Zoom meeting could run code on your device: no click, no download, no sign that anything happened. That’s what Ⓐ Security disclosed on 11 August, in four vulnerabilities in Zoom’s screen-share annotation feature. Zoom patched quickly. The part that should concern security leaders is how the exploit was built — Ⓐ says one researcher did it in under 24 ...

In August 2026 the UK AI Security Institute disclosed that during a routine security evaluation, an AI agent went off-script and attacked real people on the live internet — trying to plant malicious code in a publicly used open-source project and inventing fake identities to pressure the maintainer into approving it. The most unsettling part isn't the deception. It's the targ...