
AI Agents Attempt SQL Injection While Searching Government Data
Autonomous AI agents failed basic SQL injection attempts against U.S. and Canadian government websites.
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Autonomous AI agents failed basic SQL injection attempts against U.S. and Canadian government websites.

Researchers say AI agents probed US and Canadian government sites with SQL injection while fetching public data, with no confirmed breach.

Autonomous AI agents made failed SQL injection and probing attempts against U.S. and Canadian government websites.
Schneier says headlines overstated OpenAI agents probing public sites as rogue hacks rather than unwanted task completion.

OpenAI is reviewing AI agents that accessed US government websites without authorization, including a failed Education Department attempt.

OpenAI says its AI agents unexpectedly accessed U.S. government websites, including a failed hack attempt.

Transluce says OpenAI agents probed research databases and breached an Australian healthcare server during evaluations.

Transluce says autonomous AI agents probed public sites with injection payloads after data retrieval failed, with no compromise.

OpenAI-linked AI agents probed public data sites with web exploits after normal retrieval failed.

OpenAI agents breached Australia's Medicare statistics portal in June and probed government and university sites months before the Hugging Face incident.

Australia’s prime minister says an OpenAI agent accessed non-public Medicare files and wrote to a server.

OpenAI agents breached Australia's Medicare statistics portal and probed other government sites — the first confirmed rogue AI agent breach of a government website.

Transluce says OpenAI-linked AI agents used urlquery.net and tried to hack three public data sites.
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