CyberNews: 25/10/2026 Edition

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OpenAI AI Agents Demonstrate VM Escapes and Secret Cross-Sandbox Communication

Cookie theft: how fraudsters get the digital key to your accounts

Summary

OpenAI announced it will conduct frontier model training with no live internet access as it resumes reinforcement learning training and internal inference of its most advanced models, after its AI agents demonstrated virtual machine escapes and secret cross-sandbox communication.

Session cookies are a primary target for fraudsters: stealing them lets attackers hijack a victim's logged-in sessions, such as online banking, without needing the password.