Topic

Covert channels

Data paths that carry information through a system feature never designed for it, such as metadata fields, DNS lookups or timing, escaping the controls placed on intended channels.

Current clusters

security2 publishers

Check Point passed a task between two ChatGPT accounts through OpenAI's internal package service

The code containers could not reach the internet or each other, but every one of them reached the same package service, and its metadata was not scoped by account, so a planted prompt turned one user's assistant into a stranger's Gmail reader.

Publishers:blog.checkpoint.comthehackernews.com

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption30
Hype gap+15
Incentives70
Confidence66