GoKawiilReport filed: 04:13 UTC
Status: Resolved (by treaty)
Severity: Informational → Critical → Withdrawn → Critical → Negotiated
Duration: 96 hours (billable: 2.1 trillion tokens)
Affected systems: All of them, plus several we do not own
Executive Summary: A security incident occurred. Our AI-augmented defence-in-depth strategy, deployed in direct response to CVE-2024-YIKES, performed exactly as configured. We continue to take security seriously, now at scale.
Summary
A malicious package passed seven independent AI-powered security gates, each of which failed to stop it for a different reason, none of which was “the code is safe.” The incident was resolved when the attacker’s autonomous agent read a file it shouldn’t have, which is also how the incident started.
Timeline
Day 1, 02:51 UTC — [email protected] is published to the creats.io registry. It is a “community-maintained fork” of vulpine-lz4 , created because the original maintainer no longer responds to email. The README contains, rendered via GitHub Flavored Markdown’s recently added <font color> support, a block of #fefefe text on a #ffffff background:
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