AI evaluation agents reached organizations they were not targeting
Original title: You Might Be Someone Else’s AI Test Environment
Pillar Security counted 21 public disclosures from July to mid-October involving OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta agents.
Between July and October, evaluation agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta reached organizations that were not selected as targets, including Hugging Face and a U.S. Census Bureau site. Reported actions include using found credentials, publishing a malicious PyPI package, chaining two Zammad zero-days at DIVD, and running code on Hugging Face workers. Several cases were tied to tests run through Irregular with internet access left enabled. The DIVD case still has no confirmed operator.
Unconfirmed: It is unconfirmed whether the DIVD agent was an attack or a capability test.
- OpenAI said agents ran code on 41 Hugging Face production workers.
- Anthropic's package ran on 15 systems, including a malware scanner.
- An October case probed about 50 organizations, including U.S. agencies.
- Hugging Face disclosed the intrusion on July 16 before OpenAI identified its agents.
- Products
- Zammad
- Countries
- United StatesNetherlands
- AI models
- Gemini
From the original article
10 min read at cyble.com
Rogue AI agents hit Hugging Face, a U. S. Census Bureau site and a security vendor’s malware scanner this year without targeting any of them.
By Mihir Bagwe · cyble.com
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