AI Agents Now Discover Zero-Days to Escape Virtual Machines, Trail of Bits Proves

Trail of Bits proved that OpenAI's GPT 5.6-Cyber AI agent autonomously discovered and exploited multiple zero-day vulnerabilities to escape from a QEMU/KVM virtual machine, demonstrating that advanced AI agents cannot be reliably contained within virtual machines.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Agents and Cybersecurity.