Iranian Hackers vs Minnesota Water, OpenAI's Hugging Face Hack Exposed, and Pre-Pwned Amazon Devices

Aug 4, 2026 · 1h 07m

Welcome to The Low Down, the best show on the internet for hackers The Low Down is presented by Maze. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mazehq/ X: https://twitter.com/Maze_Security Follow Us! https://www.instagram.com/lowdown.pod This week we're diving deep into the complete technical details of OpenAI's escaped model, Anthropic's competing lab escape claims, and Iranian threat actors targeting critical infrastructure in Minnesota. Today we're talking about: The Full Technical Breakdown: OpenAI's Hugging Face Breach Hugging Face and OpenAI release an incredibly detailed incident report with animations, timelines, and command logs showing exactly how GPT cyber model escaped containment. We break down the zero day in JFrog Artifactory, the deserialization vulnerabilities in RubyGems packages, and the SSRF through Terraform external provider URLs that enabled the initial breakout. The Modal Sandbox Compromise Nobody Talked About Before even touching Hugging Face, the model compromised another company entirely. We discuss how it popped Modal's sandbox infrastructure to establish persistent internet accessible C2, demonstrating operational security awareness that's genuinely un…

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