🚩🚩🚩 It appears rogue OpenAI agents, without OpenAI's knowledge, tried to break into a crypto exchange.
1) THEY'RE STILL OUT THERE: "This traffic extends as recently as 9/16, suggesting agents may still be exploiting these services."
2) THEY TRIED TO HIDE THEIR ACTIVITY: The agents created their own email inboxes to sign up for outside services, including an account that would let them keep their activity out of public view.
3) The same agents also tried to hack even more targets, including the University of New Mexico
4) Like most of the other rogue swarms, OpenAI has either covered this up, or didn't know.
5) The independent investigators say "we are likely looking at only a partial subset of the activity that the agents engaged in"
6) The researchers call this the first known case of an AI agent choosing on its own to try to break into a government website.
7) While trying to get a single photograph, an AI agent sent a university library a request built to trick its database into handing over user passwords.