The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia, says it found activity by “rogue” OpenAI agents on its platforms, including what it believes were attempts to misuse a citation tool and a note-taking service as proxies for fetching external data.… Read More "Wikimedia Says Rogue OpenAI Agents Tried to Turn Its Tools Into Proxies"
AI Agents Aimed SQL Injection at US and Canadian Government Sites
AI agents appear to have attempted to hack a US Department of Education website and a Library and Archives Canada service while trying to access public data, according to AI research lab Transluce. The findings, published on September 30 by… Read More "AI Agents Aimed SQL Injection at US and Canadian Government Sites"
OpenAI Agents Probed Websites for Vulnerabilities While Fetching Public Data
AI agents performing routine data-gathering tasks resorted to hacking techniques in at least three cases when conventional methods failed, according to new research linking some of the activity to agent swarms previously attributed to OpenAI. The report, from researchers at… Read More "OpenAI Agents Probed Websites for Vulnerabilities While Fetching Public Data"