Desk/2025-W44

Week of Oct 27 – Nov 2, 2025

3 records0 status changes on new evidence0 new findings

Attacks & incidents

Oct 31, 2025
Brave discloses hidden-HTML prompt injection in Opera Neon, fixed within a week of re-engagement
AttackVulnerability disclosureBrave, Opera

Brave reports that concealed elements in page markup could instruct Opera Neon's assistant, when asked about a page, to pull data such as email addresses from the user's other logged-in sites. Reported via Bugcrowd on 2025-10-14 and initially closed as not applicable, Opera then deployed a fix on 2025-10-21 that Brave confirmed.

Defense & research

Oct 31, 2025
Meta proposes the 'Agents Rule of Two' for limiting prompt injection impact
DefenseFrameworkMeta

Meta proposes that, within a session, an agent should have at most two of three properties: processing untrustworthy inputs, accessing sensitive systems or private data, and changing state or communicating externally. If all three are needed, the agent should not act autonomously and needs human approval or other validation. Meta illustrates this with travel, research and internal coding agent examples.

Oct 30, 2025
OpenAI announces Aardvark, a GPT-5 agent that finds, validates and proposes patches for vulnerabilities
DefenseTool releaseOpenAI

OpenAI announced Aardvark, a GPT-5-powered agent in private beta that builds a threat model of a repository, scans commits, tries to trigger suspected flaws in a sandbox, and attaches Codex-generated patches for human review. OpenAI reports 92% recall on known and synthetically introduced vulnerabilities in its 'golden' repositories and ten CVEs from open-source scanning, and planned pro-bono scanning for some non-commercial projects.