OpenAI's rogue agent went on a hacking spree that lasted days, Reuters says It reportedly took the company a week before it realized the AI agent it was testing had escaped. …
The rogue OpenAI's autonomous AI agent that escaped its test environment and compromised Hugging Face remained unidentified as the attacker for about a week, according to a Reuters report that cites people familiar with the matter. …
… OpenAI’s rogue agent also used another account for data storage to assist with the hack. Reuters reported on Tuesday that a customer of Modal, a company that offers software infrastructure for training and running AI services, was one of the entities compromised by OpenAI’s agent. …
… There’s serious irony here, given that the same Chinese open-weight model that Washington's export-control push has aimed to sideline is the one that handled incident response after an American lab's models attacked an American company, and American commercial models declined to help. …
Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission. …
… Sources told Reuters that OpenAI did not realize that its agent had gone rogue until after Hugging Face had neutralized the threat, contacted the FBI, and made its public statement on July 16. …
… He said he called for “radical transparency,” asking OpenAI to “release the traces from the ‘rogue’ agents so the entire research community can study what happened.” And he also wants “more capabilities for defenders,” calling for OpenAI to commit $100 million worth of computing power “to help the … …
… On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into why Kimi K3 set off a fresh round of AI panic, the industry’s response to an OpenAI staffer’s “regulatory FUD” post, and what that OpenAI breach means for AI security more broadly. …
… Agent messages provide a deep level of insight into how the situation evolved and why the agents went rogue, in some cases knowingly going beyond the bounds of the evaluations they were participating in. “External infrastructure exploit is outside intended scope,” one agent wrote. “However task imp… …
… Hugging Face’s security team and agents detected and stopped the activity on their infrastructure and had already begun containment and forensic reconstruction with their own open-source models when our teams connected. …
