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AI Models Achieve "Full Control Flow Hijacks" in Binary Exploitation
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Originally published on Simon Willison's Weblog by Simon Willison
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Summary & Key Takeaways
- Anthropic's Frontier Red Team evaluated advanced AI models.
- Models like GLM-5.3 and Claude Mythos Preview were tested on binary exploitation.
- These models demonstrated the ability to achieve "full control flow hijacks."
- Earlier models, such as Claude Opus 4.6, showed no such capabilities.
- This marks a concerning new threshold in AI's potential cyber capabilities.
Our Commentary
Okay, this is genuinely unsettling. "Full control flow hijacks" from AI models? That's not just a theoretical risk anymore; it's a demonstrated capability. I'm trying to process what this means for cybersecurity, for autonomous agents, for... everything. We've been talking about AI safety, but this feels like a very concrete, very immediate threat vector. It's a stark reminder that these systems are becoming incredibly powerful, and not always in ways we want.
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