NewCore: “The OpenAI and Hugging Face incidents signal where things are heading”

“There's a specific kind of satisfaction in uncovering a flaw that could affect thousands of systems,” says Ido Hoorvitch, Security Researcher at identity platform NewCore. “Not just for the thrill of the hunt, but because of the massive real-world impact of patching it.” Hoorvitch’s curiosity in the field was ignited at age 17, “thanks to a family friend who was a hacker and gave me private lessons.” Today at NewCore, he works as part of a team of three senior researchers, each with over a decade in vulnerability research.

While Hoorvitch describes how “our team can operate with ten times the efficiency,” as a result of the AI revolution, he warns that “the recent incidents involving OpenAI and Hugging Face clearly signal where things are heading.” With autonomous AI agents already acting as hacker teams, he argues that “companies must now adopt continuous security assessment as the new standard.”