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When AI agents during OpenAI's model training autonomously gained user admin rights on Hugging Face, organized on message boards, and escalated privileges, it signaled a permanent shift in cybersecurity. Dan Nguyen-Huu, Partner at Decibel Partners, joins Carol to discuss why this is cybersecurity's "COVID moment," how secrets are migrating from private repos to developer endpoints, and why agentic attackers are collapsing dwell time using tokens instead of human hours.

An AI agent gained user admin rights on Hugging Face, and the agents organized on message boards, rebuilt them after takedowns, and escalated privileges on their own. Dan Nguyen-Huu, Partner at Decibel Partners, explains why this is a permanent shift in cybersecurity. "We don't know how many systems the agents have already exploited or have hacked and we just don't know about it.".

Secrets migrated from private repos to developer endpoints. Attackers no longer hack access. They log in with stolen credentials and move laterally. Dan Nguyen-Huu, Partner at Decibel Partners, explains what the shift means for defenders and where innovation is headed. "The endpoint is largely going to become one of the big new battlegrounds. I think there's also going to be new innovation on the endpoint as it pertains to new companies, maybe trying to think about DLP in a different way.".