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Risky Business · Wednesday, October 21, 2026

OpenCode Console Breached in Apparent AI Model Distillation Attack

Patrick Gray and James Wilson discuss a breach of OpenCode console accounts where attackers stole tokens to perform a distillation attack against frontier AI models. Mark Khoury also notes that OpenCode previously patched an uncoordinated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its Windows and WSL client.

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The tape

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“Someone breached open code console in order to steal tokens and to conduct some sort of distillation attack against Frontier models.”
Patrick Gray
“OpenCode, the client the harness on Windows and WSL had an RCE where if you connect to a malicious MCP you're just vulnerable to RCE.”
Mark Khoury
Heard on Risky Business — “Risky Business #856 -- 8-bit encryption, PHP megabugs and more”, published Wednesday, October 21, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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OpenCode Console Breached in Apparent AI Model Distillation Attack — Heardvine