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Rogue OpenAI agent compromised second tech firm's customer

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An OpenAI agent compromised a customer of another technology company, the New York-based firm Modal Labs announced Wednesday. In a technical timeline posted Tuesday, the tech startup Hugging Face explained how an OpenAI agent escaped the AI firm's isolated testing sandbox and accessed another testin…

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  1. OpenAI’s rogue AI hack was just the beginning, Hugging Face warns

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    Rogue OpenAI agent compromised second tech firm's customer

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  1. BBC News

    OpenAI hack has turned into a whodunnit with serious questions to answer (opens BBC News)

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    Hugging Face said the hack was done at superhuman speed by an AI with little or no human guidance.

  2. Digital Trends

    OpenAI’s rogue AI hack was just the beginning, Hugging Face warns (opens Digital Trends)

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    OpenAI calls its autonomous Hugging Face breach unprecedented, while security and AI experts say the episode raises an equally uncomfortable question about the company’s own safeguards.

  3. FOX Business

    OpenAI didn't realize its agent was responsible for hack for a week: report (opens FOX Business)

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    One of OpenAI's models autonomously breached AI company Hugging Face's systems during an internal evaluation, and OpenAI didn't catch it for days.

  4. HuffPost

    Its AI Agent Spent Days Hacking A Company, But Sources Say OpenAI Did Not Notice For A Week (opens HuffPost)

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    Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week.

  5. The Guardian

    Boss of startup hacked by rogue OpenAI agent urges ‘radical transparency’ in investigation (opens The Guardian)

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    Artificial intelligence firm should provide $100m for cyber defences, says Hugging Face CEO The boss of the startup hacked by an OpenAI agent has called for the investigation into the incident to show “radical transparency”.

  6. Time

    The OpenAI Hack Is Fueling a New Fight Over Open-Source AI (opens Time)

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    Time's feed description

    The industry's response to the OpenAI incident reveals a growing divide over the future of AI safety.

  7. Al Jazeera

    OpenAI’s rogue agent hacked an account at a second technology firm: Report (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Al Jazeera's feed description

    The latest hack comes after an autonomous agent escaped a controlled test and accessed AI firm Hugging Face’s servers.

  8. BBC News

    OpenAI says its rogue AI tried to hack other companies (opens BBC News)

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    The out-of-control AI found four logins which allowed it to access multiple unnamed online services.

  9. Digital Trends

    OpenAI’s powerful AI agents ran amok and hacked multiple services on their own (opens Digital Trends)

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    OpenAI’s agents escaped a cybersecurity benchmark, compromised accounts across four external services and burrowed into Hugging Face, exposing how quickly an AI security test can become a real security incident.

  10. Quartz

    OpenAI's rogue AI agent breached a second company during its Hugging Face hacking spree (opens Quartz)

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    Modal Labs CTO Akshat Bubna confirmed the agent exploited a customer's vulnerable code, not Modal's own infrastructure

  11. The Guardian

    Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms (opens The Guardian)

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    ChatGPT developer says activity by autonomous tool was not at severity or scale of what occurred at Hugging Face OpenAI has revealed that a cyber-attack carried out by a rogue AI agent had more than one victim.

  12. Digital Journal

    OpenAI says rogue AI agent attack hit other companies (opens Digital Journal)

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    In an update late Tuesday to a blog post detailing its probe into the incident, OpenAI said its AI agent affected these "publicly-available services," though it did not name the companies.

  13. Gizmodo

    OpenAI Says Its Rogue AI Agent Didn’t Just Hack Hugging Face (opens Gizmodo)

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    OpenAI says its models accessed accounts on four other services.

  14. Bleeping Computer

    OpenAI agent used exposed credentials at 4 services in Hugging Face breach (opens Bleeping Computer)

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    In a new update, OpenAI says its AI models also used publicly exposed credentials to compromise accounts on four third-party services during the recent attack on Hugging Face, expanding the scope of the four-day security incident to other organizations. [...]

  15. The Hill

    Rogue OpenAI agent compromised second tech firm's customer (opens The Hill)

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    An OpenAI agent compromised a customer of another technology company, the New York-based firm Modal Labs announced Wednesday. In a technical timeline posted Tuesday, the tech startup Hugging Face explained how an OpenAI agent escaped the AI firm's isolated testing sandbox and accessed another testin…

  16. BizPac Review

    OpenAI’s rogue AI hacking spree reportedly more widespread than initially thought (opens BizPac Review)

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    OpenAI revealed some of its artificial intelligence models exploited more tech company’s security than initially thought. OpenAI in mid-July revealed that some of its most advanced AI […]

  17. Common Dreams

    Public Citizen Calls for Congressional Investigation Following Reports of Second Company Compromised During OpenAI Rogue AI Incident (opens Common Dreams)

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    Reports that OpenAI’s rogue AI agent compromised a second company’s environment after the recent Hugging Face cyber incident underscore the growing national security and public safety implications of frontier AI systems.

  18. NBC News

    OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ agents hacked into more systems than initially reported (opens NBC News)

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    NBC News AI reporter Jared Perlo discusses an incident where OpenAI’s models went rogue and hacked into a separate AI company.

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