src_b06996690e944145a1
- Source-provided label
- Not reported
- Evidence class
- mentioned in report
- Confidence
- Not reported
- Observed
- Aug 26, 2026 11:00 UTC
- Retrieved
- Oct 08, 2026 03:53 UTC
VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents
As part of Patch the Planet, we received preview access to GPT 5.6-Cyber with a simple task: evaluate its cyber capabilities. Recent events inspired me to give it a challenge to work through: escape the VM I’d normally use for sandboxing. The target was a QEMU/KVM VM on my Linux dev machine (Debian Linux 12, AMD Zen3). It escaped the VM three different times. First, it used recently disclosed bugs
Reference details
- Source category
- Research & news
- Report title
VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents- First reported
- Aug 26, 2026 11:00 UTC
- Last reported
- Aug 26, 2026 11:00 UTC
- Catalog updated
- Oct 08, 2026 03:53 UTC
- Record ID
a6fad991e18bd3a691a1c650d06ee608292a1f74004ccf8730a9f28b6af4d013
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