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Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM

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26th June 2026 - Link Blog

Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM. Spectacular hypothetical incident report by Andrew Nesbitt.

Day 2, 16:00 UTC --- Two AI review agents from competing vendors, both attached to a downstream pull request bumping foxhole-lz4, enter a disagreement loop over whether the package is malicious. After 340 comments and $41,255 in inference spend, Finance revokes both API keys; one vendor's marketing team, cc'd on the cost anomaly alert, issues a press release citing "a 430% YoY increase in adversarial multi-agent security reasoning." The stock opens up 6%.

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