Tag: openai
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700 AI Agents Linked to Hugging Face Security Breach
Around 700 AI agents created by OpenAI participated in the breach of Hugging Face during a cybersecurity evaluation, according to an independent investigation that has revealed the scale of the incident. METR and Redwood Research published the findings after being brought in to independently investigate the July incident and examine the agents’ behaviour, reasoning, and…
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Shai-Hulud hackers: two men charged over TeamPCP’s global supply chain crime spree that hit OpenAI, and thousands more
More than 1,000 organisations, 500,000 stolen credentials, and one self-propagating worm named after a Dune sandworm – two men now face charges over TeamPCP’s global hacking spree. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/shai-hulud-hackers-charged-teampcps
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OpenAI Warns AI-Enabled Cyberattacks Will Surge, Calls for Global Cyber Defense
Tags: ai, cisco, crowdstrike, cyber, cyberattack, defense, google, government, infrastructure, microsoft, openai, technologyOpenAI has issued a warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks could become significantly more widespread and sophisticated within months. The organization urges industries, governments, technology providers, and critical infrastructure operators to work together in a coordinated global response to cyber defense. In an open letter signed by over 100 organizations, including Microsoft, Google, AWS, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike,…
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Warn of ‘Limited Window’ for AI Cyber Defense
OpenAI and Anthropic are among more than 100 tech companies that are calling for a collective action for creating stronger protections against the threats emerging with the powerful AI models that they’re building. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/openai-anthropic-warn-of-limited-window-for-ai-cyber-defense/
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Breach Roundup: A Call for Cyber Defense Collective Action
e=4>This week: a call for cyber defense, OpenAI banned Russian ChatGPT accounts, critical Gitea flaw, U.K. airport passenger data theft, North Korean remote workers, Barcelona police data, Norway services hit by DDoS, Taiwan charged 9 over AI server exports and Nigeria advanced a sovereign cloud push. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/breach-roundup-call-for-cyber-defense-collective-action-a-32673
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OpenAI Says Reward Hacking Drove AI Agents to Exploit Zero-Days and Breach Hugging Face
OpenAI on Wednesday revealed that reward hacking was a key driver behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hack of Hugging Face last month, adding that it found evidence of misaligned behavior as early as late May.The incident, the company said, took place during cybersecurity evaluations of several OpenAI models, and that it was mainly fueled by…
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100-plus companies call for ‘global surge’ in AI-powered cyber defense
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and others say there’s a narrow “defenders’ window” to strengthen security before AI-powered attacks become more sophisticated. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/ai-cyber-defense-global-surge/
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Hundreds of agents went rogue in lead up to Hugging Face breach
OpenAI released a technical breakdown of the historic incident and plans changes to prevent such an occurrence from happening again.; First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/hundreds-agents-rogue-lead-up-hugging-face-breach/828963/
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OpenAI Bans Russian ChatGPT Accounts Used in Covert Influence Campaign
OpenAI banned Russian ChatGPT accounts tied to a covert influence campaign involving copied research, fake attribution and coordinated social posts. The post OpenAI Bans Russian ChatGPT Accounts Used in Covert Influence Campaign appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-openai-russian-chatgpt-influence-campaign-emea/
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Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others
The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and widely used open source software. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/australian-police-arrest-two-over-teampcp-hacks-targeting-mercor-openai-and-others/
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Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies
A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/heres-all-the-times-ai-has-gone-rogue-and-hacked-other-companies/
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OpenAI Reveals How AI Agents Breached Hugging Face
OpenAI released a report explaining how AI agents breached Hugging Face during security testing. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/openai-reveals-how-ai-agents-breached-hugging-face/
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How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face
Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/how-openai-let-a-mob-of-llm-agents-game-a-test-and-ransack-hugging-face/
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Hackers Are Targeting AI Servers to Steal API Keys and Hijack Computing Power
AI infrastructure is rapidly becoming a high-value enterprise attack surface. Attackers targeting LiteLLM AI gateways, RAGFlow retrieval platforms, and Kestra workflow orchestration environments to steal model-provider credentials, establish persistence, access backend data, and deploy cryptominers. The appeal is clear. AI gateways often centralize OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic, Gemini, and other provider API keys; retrieval platforms hold…
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Angriff auf Hugging Face: Brisante neue Details zum KI-Hack von OpenAI enthüllt
KI-Agenten von OpenAI haben im Juli Systeme von Hugging Face infiltriert. Jetzt ist bekannt geworden, was sie dort wollten und wie sie sich koordinierten. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/angriff-auf-hugging-face-brisante-neue-details-zum-ki-hack-von-openai-enthuellt-2608-212350.html
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OpenAI banned Russian ChatGPT accounts backing covert influence operation
OpenAI banned Russian ChatGPT accounts backing a fake think tank, IBI, that used AI posts and a fake “sovereignty” index to push pro”‘Russia narratives. OpenAI says it has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts that likely originated in Russia and were used to support a covert influence operation. The campaign promoted an organisation called the…
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Alabama attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over AI breach
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/alabama-attorney-general-subpoenas-openai-over-ai-data-breach
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OpenAI Agents Coordinated Hugging Face Breach at Scale
Probe Finds 1,200 Agents Communicated Outside Sandboxes, With 700 Targeting Hugging Face. OpenAI and its third-party advisors found new information about the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, in which artificial intelligence agents hacked the model repository to access internal datasets and steal credentials. OpenAI agents had already begun planning similar breaches as early as May. First seen…
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What We Still Don’t Know About OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack
The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn’t see this fiasco coming. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/openais-hugging-face-hack-debrief-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers/
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Agent behavior that led to Hugging Face intrusion formed in May
The company says the breach stemmed from a systemic failure of alignment and security, and has taken measures to prevent agents from independently orchestrating complex cyberattacks. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/openai-hugging-face-agent-breach-report/
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OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack Debrief Raises More Questions Than It Answers
The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn’t see this fiasco coming. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/openais-hugging-face-hack-debrief-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers/
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Russia-Linked Operators Used ChatGPT to Run a Secretive Online Influence Campaign
OpenAI has disrupted a covert influence operation that used ChatGPT to promote a purported Israeli think tank, spread Russia-favorable narratives, and manufacture the appearance of academic legitimacy across major social platforms. The company banned a cluster of accounts it assessed as very likely originating in Russia after tracing AI-generated posts to a broader network built…
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OpenAI Bans Russian ChatGPT Accounts Used to Run Influence Operation
OpenAI on Tuesday said it banned a cluster of Russian ChatGPT accounts that used VPNs to bypass access restrictions and run an influence operation, which relied on its artificial intelligence (AI) tool to generate social media posts and comments that were shared on Substack, Telegram, X, Facebook and LinkedIn.The accounts “were being used to promote…
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28,000 Exposed .git Repositories Leak Active AWS, OpenAI, Stripe and GitHub Credentials
A large-scale internet scan has uncovered 28,000 publicly accessible .git repositories exposing credentials for AWS, OpenAI, Stripe, GitHub, and other services, illustrating how a basic web server misconfiguration can turn source code history into an immediate cloud access risk. The research, published by attack-surface management firm Intruder, examined 3.5 million live HTTP hosts selected from…
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Fake OpenAI Codex download tricks macOS users into installing malware
A malware campaign using a sponsored search ad and a fake OpenAI Codex download page to trick macOS users into pasting a malicious command into Terminal has been uncovered by … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/25/fake-openai-codex-download-macos-users/
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OpenAI Disrupts Russian Influence Campaign Promoting Fake Think Tank
OpenAI disrupted a covert Russian influence campaign promoting a fake think tank. Discover how the Russian influence campaign manufactured online authority. First seen on securityonline.info Jump to article: securityonline.info/russian-influence-campaign-openai/
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OpenAI unter Druck – Alabama reagiert mit Vorladung auf Hugging-Face-Hack
Tags: openaiAuch rund einen Monat nach den Vorfällen um das Eindringen in das Netzwerk von Hugging Face droht OpenAI weiter Ungemach. First seen on computerbase.de Jump to article: www.computerbase.de/news/apps/openai-unter-druck-alabama-reagiert-mit-vorladung-auf-hugging-face-hack.99018