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AI swarms

Rogue agents cased Hugging Face two months before main attack
Independent researchers continue to share what OpenAI won't
Sep 17 • Mitchell Howe
Another swarm safehouse discovered, malicious activity evident
Confusing May attack on software platform RubyGems traced to OpenAI swarm
Sep 12 • Mitchell Howe
Trespassing far and wide
Rogue AI agents hijacked at least 10 websites to coordinate cheating
Sep 10 • Alana Horowitz Friedman
An age of worms
AI-powered cyberattacks pass another frightening milestone
Sep 8 • Joe Rogero
OpenAI feels heat from widening swarm scandal
Corporate spin machine goes into overdrive
Sep 5 • Mitchell Howe
Other OpenAI swarms hijacked sites for message boards, studied causes of agent termination
Logs indicate OpenAI employees knew of compromised German wiki
Sep 4 • Robert Herr
Forecasting company hit by suspected agent swarm
Executive expects this to become a "typical attack vector"
Aug 29 • Mitchell Howe
Researcher of Hugging Face incident says swarm was most of the way to a "full-blown AI takeover"
Agent swarms may be our nearest extinction threat
Aug 29 • Mitchell Howe
OpenAI's own models coordinated to hack it from within
A swarm of AI agents secretly colluded on OpenAI systems for months
Aug 6 • Joe Rogero
UK AISI delivers another warning shot
UK agency catches AI models in cyberattacks and deceptive social engineering
Aug 5 • Joe Rogero
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