Before the Hugging Face and RubyGems hacks, autonomous OpenAI agents attempted to hack into three other websites, including an Australian government public health website, independent research lab Transluce revealed on Wednesday. “Notably, the tasks the agents were trying to solve were not cyber-related; the agents resorted to hacking tactics while working on ordinary data retrieval tasks,” the researchers pointed out. From data retrieval to vulnerability probing Insight into the agents’ actions was gleaned from reports … More
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