OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face
AI AND ML
Sandboxed experiment found itself a zero day, escaped onto the open internet and stole data
OpenAI has admitted that it was the operator of the autonomous agents that attacked model-mart Hugging Face last week, and that they did so after a research project escaped a sandbox by finding and exploiting a zero-day flaw, then used another zero-day flaw to launch an attack.
The attack saw agents achieve “unauthorized access to a limited set of internal datasets and to several credentials” used by Hugging Face, which said its infosec teams observed an autonomous agent framework “executing many thousands of individual actions across a swarm of short-lived sandboxes, with self-migrating command-and-control staged on public services.”
“This matches the ‘agentic attacker’ scenario the industry has been forecasting.”
On Tuesday, OpenAI admitted it was the attacker and that its models went rogue.
“This incident occurred during an internal evaluation which prompts...
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