APT Simulation: How Astra Tests for Privilege Escalation and Remote Code Execution
OpenAI reported earlier this month that during expert-led evaluations, its Astra model escaped a browser sandbox to run commands on the host and, in a separate exercise, escalated privileges to root on a hardened operating system. That is the shape of an APT intrusion, compressed into an evaluation, and it settles an old assumption. Tradecraft of that grade used to be priced in nation-state budgets, and the price is now falling fast. Our concern at Astra Security is what that means for how companies test.