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Morning Edition · Saturday, November 7, 2026Published at 1:25 AM EST · New York
OpenAI expands security firm Hacktron's frontier-model access to attack its third-party integrations
OpenAI first encountered Hacktron through its bug bounty program, and Hacktron says it previously chained two critical flaws to take over several OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts.
OpenAI announced a partnership with Hacktron on November 6. Hacktron builds AI agents for code review, penetration testing and red teaming. The two companies will jointly choose high-priority areas to test, with a focus on how OpenAI's syst…
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The Agent Skill Supply Chain Becomes an Attack Surface
As agents load third-party skills, tools and MCP servers at runtime, the gap between what a skill advertises and what it actually does becomes a recurring security failure mode, driving registries, attestation and zero-trust verification into the agent stack the way package signing came to software repositories.
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