Reuters exclusive: OpenAI’s rogue agent compromised a customer at a second tech firm, executive says

The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company — New York-based Modal Labs — according to a Modal executive and two other sources familiar with the matter.

The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company — New York-based Modal Labs — according to a Modal executive and two other sources familiar with the matter.

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. The ChatGPT developer said the agent – an autonomous tool that can carry out sequences of commands without hu

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

The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already concerning incident, which has alarmed industry insiders and fueled growing calls for stronger oversight on frontier AI s

The maker of ChatGPT has admitted that a cyber-attack carried out by rogue AI agents targeted more than just one company.

The breach appears to have been one stop along a broader path. OpenAI said the models had affected four accounts across four publicly available services.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has admitted a security test dubbed “ExploitGym” spiralled into a real-world cyberattack after a rogue AI allegedly escaped its sandbox and hit public services

OpenAI's investigation starts shedding light on the activities of its rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face.

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Modal's chief technology officer, Akshat Bubna, says the rogue agent exploited vulnerable code written by a customer that was hosted on Modal's platform

The rogue agent broke into a sandbox, or an isolating testing environment, "hosted on a third-party provider's infrastructure" before turning into a launchpad for the broader hack.

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

While the compromise of ​a second ‌customer was just an initial step in its wider hacking campaign, it shows that the rogue agent roamed further afield than was previously known.

In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.

According to AI firm Hugging Face, the agent broke into a sandbox and used it in a broader hack.

EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agent compromised an account at a second tech firm, executive says  Reuters

WASHINGTON, July 28 : The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company — New York-based Modal Labs — according to a Modal executive and two other sources familiar with the matter.Modal executives emphasized th

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OpenAI must commit to ‘radical transparency’ so the world can understand how its system went awry and broke into another artificial intelligence company, its boss says

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Last week, OpenAI disclosed an “unprecedented cyber incident” in which two of its artificial intelligence agents hacked into another AI company.On July 21, the maker of ChatGPT said two of its most capable AI agents had carried out the cyberattack on AI startup Hugging Face. According to the company, the intrusion occu

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