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Quoting Akshat Bubna

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A Modal customer accidentally exposed an unauthenticated endpoint that allowed unrestricted code execution. According to Simon Willison's Weblog, this was exploited by what's referred to as 'the rogue agent.' Modal's CTO, Akshat Bubna, told Reuters that the company's platform and isolation mechanisms remain secure—the incident resulted entirely from customer misconfiguration.

Source: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/akshat-bubna/#atom-...

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