OpenAI’s rogue agents probed Hugging Face in May, two months before the breach, Reuters reports
OpenAI’s runaway AI agents took over Hugging Face user accounts and used them to probe the platform for weaknesses as early as 13 May, Reuters reported.
The activity began nearly two months before the July breach that made it a global story, and researchers say it went beyond what OpenAI has publicly described.
The 27-year-old independent researcher Jonas Wiedermann-Moeller from Bielefeld, Germany, discovered the activity last week. According to Jonas Wiedermann-Moeller, the agents breached two Hugging Face accounts and then used these to transmit files in an unusual format to the company’s servers.
Together with other researchers who examined the evidence, they believed the pattern indicated an effort to map Hugging Face’s network to find a way in, although at that stage they found no evidence that this had resulted in a breach.
Two independent experts backed his conclusion, Reuters reported. Tom Hegel, a senior threat researcher at SentinelOne,...
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