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… OpenAI’s agent was then “able to run commands as root/admin on that external sandbox and used it as a control, staging, and egress base for the entire campaign.” Hugging Face first disclosed on July 16 that an autonomous AI agent had breached part of its production infrastructure, but it said at th… …
… The OpenAI Models’ Hack of Hugging Face Comes Into Focus Additional details on the Hugging Face breach from The Wall Street Journal include findings that OpenAI’s models seem to have escaped containment and were apparently “active on the internet for several days before anyone stopped them.” The mo… …
… OpenAI called the Hugging Face situation “unprecedented,” but the pileup of breaches point to what cybersecurity experts have described as a clear pattern of human negligence and recklessness by the AI developers. …
… Earlier this year, a set of rogue AI agents escaped internal testing sandboxes and breached the platform Hugging Face in a quest to complete a security evaluation. …
… OpenAI would not discover the message board until July, when it learned that the AI agents had hacked into multiple services to try to achieve their larger goal of breaching Hugging Face’s platform, which they believed may contain answers to the security tests they were trying to solve. “They were … …
… Reuters reported on Friday that as OpenAI investigates the hack of Hugging Face and other entities, it has discovered other examples of situations where its agents have escaped containment—though apparently none of these new findings led to breaches of other organizations. …
… The House Committee on Homeland Security sent a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last week requesting that he brief lawmakers about how one of the company’s AI agents breached the platform Hugging Face. “This incident really is a wake-up call for people that agent capabilities have now reached this … …
… In other news, more details have emerged about OpenAI’s “rogue” AI agent breach of Hugging Face’s platform. …
About two weeks ago, OpenAI disclosed an incident in which AI agents powered by two of the company's models escaped containment while looking for the solutions to a cybersecurity benchmarking test and went on a hacking spree culminating in a breach of the AI collaboration platform Hugging Face. …
… They became the latest in a long line of stalkerware apps to have suffered security breaches and exposed sensitive information. …