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GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

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  1. wg0 · · focus · HN ↗
    They're advertising GLM for free.

    Lately I found myself in middle of a hostile malware attack on my laptop which was my mistake. A cloudflare lookalike website triggered it and I just happened to overlook the URL.

    In panic I headed to Claude and first request was denied. Not looking beyond scope.

    Desperate - I fired opencode with DeepSeek v4 Flash (not even 4.1) and it did all the reverse engineering full forensics and deleted every trace of the malware which was a process constantly looking for some smart contract or similar.

    So no, GLM 5.3 is fine. Thank you for the free advertisement.

    1. gravypod · · focus · HN ↗
      This part of the article really stands out:

      > On Sept. 17, NIST’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) published its own assessment of GLM-5.3’s cyber capabilities. CAISI found that GLM-5.3 is “the most cyber-capable open-weight model released to date” and that it lags the US frontier by about four months on an aggregate of CAISI’s cyber benchmarks.

      To translate: "This free model, you can host yourself, is at max 4 months behind Anthropic - as confirmed by Anthropic and the US Government - and it won't reject your requests"

      Interesting play before an IPO...

      1. adriand · · focus · HN ↗
        This completely ignores the world we are creating here. We are setting ourselves up for a massive cyber disaster. The safeguards on US models are insufficient but at least there are safeguards. The fact there are open weight models floating around that are capable of wrecking the economy is a genuine problem! One that Anthropic is doing us a service by warning us about.

        When someone wielding a non-safeguarded model deletes the money in everyone’s bank account, I look forward to the HN comments claiming it’s an attempt by Anthropic to pull off regulatory capture.

        1. platinumrad · · focus · HN ↗
          GLM 5.2 was used by Hugging Face for defense when they were being hacked by OpenAI because the guardrails on closed models meant they refused to help.
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