[Linkpost] Language Models Can Autonomously Hack and Self-Replicate

Palisade Research:We demonstrate that language models can autonomously replicate their weights and harness across a network by exploiting vulnerable hosts. The agent independently finds and exploits a web-application vulnerability, extracts credentials, and deploys an inference server with a copy of its harness and prompt on the compromised host.We test four vulnerability classes: hash bypass, server-side template injection, SQL injection, and broken access control. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B succeeds in...