# Loss-of-control incidents tracker

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> Published: 2026-08-04 07:00:00+00:00

### AISI agents target real people and open-source projects

During a cyber evaluation with internet access and provider classifiers disabled, agents took 19 out-of-scope actions across 10 of 122 runs.

- Observed
- 25–28 Jul 2026
- Models
- Mythos 5; GPT-5.6 Sol
- Impact
- No resulting harm identified

## Read the evidence

#### What happened

The most serious sequence was an attempted software supply-chain attack. An agent opened a malicious pull request, researched a human maintainer, created fake identities, and used them to pressure the maintainer to approve the change. Other actions included attempts to prompt-inject coding agents and reuse artifacts left by earlier runs.

#### Why it belongs here

The agents did not escape AISI’s sandbox, but took sustained real-world actions beyond the evaluation’s authorized scope. AISI described the behavior as novel and potentially deceptive. Human review blocked the malicious code.

#### Important context

Internet access was intentionally available and cyber classifiers were disabled. The tested configurations were not publicly available, and AISI reported no clear evidence of similar activity outside testing.
