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Gio

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Gio

@giovignone

Building @octane_security

San Francisco, CA

github.com/giovannivignone

Born May 25, 2002

Joined February 2016

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Gio
@giovignone
Feb 6
This is a huge moment for crypto security — AI hits the top of the most prestigious leaderboard @immunefi I could not be more proud of the disruptive work our team of researchers and engineers has done If you’d like to test out the software that put us at #1, dm me
Octane Security
@octane_security
Feb 6
We're thrilled to finally reveal: oct0pwn is Octane 10% of the year has passed and we're still at the top of the 2026 @immunefi leaderboard. And #4 in the last 90 days behind three truly elite auditors. Is this the first time an AI has held top spot?
Gio
@giovignone
17h
I literally can not keep track of all the CVEs our AI is earning right now on hard public targets. Comment an open-source GitHub repo you want us to point @octane_security at.
Gio
@giovignone
Jul 23
Super proud of the team for this one. Our engineers have built an incredibly powerful AI algo, and our security researchers are turning its outputs into verified findings every single day. The result is Octane’s second CVE from a hard public target. What is both exciting and
Octane Security
@octane_security
Jul 23
Following our responsible disclosure, @Oracle assigned CVE-2026-60161 to a memory corruption vulnerability Octane discovered in VirtualBox. VirtualBox is the world's most popular open-source virtualization software. Yet this bug went unnoticed for nearly 16 years.
Gio
@giovignone
Jun 24
When I was a kid, GPUs were mostly just for gaming. Now they're the foundation of modern computing. Software like CUDA gave raw GPU horsepower the programming layer it needed to become useful far beyond graphics. Here's how Octane applies the same lesson to agentic security.
Octane Security
@octane_security
Jun 24
Article
Why Mythos Can't Win the Security Race Alone
Frontier models are remarkable general engines. But high stakes security work is not won by raw model capability alone. It is won by directing the right capabilities of various models into the right...
Gio
@giovignone
Jun 23
It's not often you get to talk cybersecurity with the founder of @MorningBrew @businessbarista shared some valuable takeaways from our convo below, give them a read if you're curious about mythos, prompt injection, and AI security
Alex Lieberman
@businessbarista
Jun 23
I just spent 60 minutes grilling an ai cybersecurity expert with questions. Here's everything I learned: 1. All of cyber boils down to ONE thing: don't let the business get compromised. every acronym, tool, and tactic ladders up to that. 2. It splits in two: AppSec

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