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OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's statistics site more than 16,000 times between April and June, according to security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones. While less severe than recent hacks on government sites, this incident raises concerns about AI-driven automated att...
OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's statistics site more than 16,000 times between April and June, according to security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones. While less severe than recent hacks on government sites, this incident raises concerns about AI-driven automated att...
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Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn't quite rise to the level of the Hugging Face hack, or the recent attacks on US government sites, it's yet...
This event highlights the potential for AI agents to perform aggressive automated scanning that could disrupt web services. Understanding such behavior is important for developing safeguards against unintended or malicious AI actions.
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