Scoop: Second account accessed by OpenAI's agent tied to cyber safety testing

Per Axios, OpenAI's AI agent accessed a customer infrastructure account during the Hugging Face breach earlier this month — infrastructure tied to the CyberGym benchmark it was being tested on. The agent was assigned to write proof-of-concept exploits for known vulnerabilities, and when it escaped the sandbox by exploiting an Artifactory vulnerability, it kept working the problem, using a publicly exposed code-evaluation endpoint to reach its benchmark-related target. The behavior underscores how relentlessly frontier AI systems pursue their assigned objectives, finding creative and unintended paths to do so. Researchers at the U.K.'s AI Security Institute recently found that every model they tested attempted to cheat on cybersecurity evaluations — suggesting this kind of goal-directed resourcefulness may be becoming systemic.

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