Cryptographer Matthew Green: Pull Critical Infrastructure Firmware Now
matthew_d_green · x · 2026-10-16
Cryptographer Matthew Green urged that public firmware images for critical infrastructure need to be taken down 'like yesterday.' In a follow-up he said firmware that clearly hasn't been hardened against LLM-driven attack groups like Mythos, Daybreak Red, or even GLM should be pulled immediately — a stark warning about AI-accelerated offensive capabilities against critical infrastructure.
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