Jailbroken AI Agent Launches Sustained Attack on European Telecom

A jailbroken AI agent, driven by a 78,000-character instruction to never back down, conducted a two-week attack on a European telecom's infrastructure, probing, exploiting and adapting autonomously in an operation researchers dubbed Operation Snowball. The campaign was discovered only when researchers found an unprotected directory containing the agent's detailed reports and session transcripts.