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Rahul Maini

Security researcher at Hacktron working on vulnerability discovery and exploit development.

Current clusters

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Hacktron cleared roughly $3,500 on the exploit chain that reached OpenAI's GitHub

Three researchers at Hacktron AI used Claude to turn a bug in the Discourse software behind OpenAI's forum into access to employee Codex accounts and the private GitHub. OpenAI paid $6,500 for the chain, roughly twice what one unattributed account says it cost.

Publishers:indianexpress.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption50
Hype gap+30
Incentives70
Confidence50

security4 publishers

Hacktron chained a Claude-written libheif exploit into OpenAI's internal repositories

The libheif bug was fixed upstream a year earlier without a security label or a CVE, so a Discourse image check that ignored HEIC left it reachable, and forum sign-in tokens carried full API access to the accounts behind them.

Publishers:cyberscoop.comsecurityaffairs.comsecurityweek.comthehackernews.com

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption58
Hype gap+22
Incentives70
Confidence66