In a world of AI-enabled cyberattacks , the victims of hacks will no longer just be humans — they'll also be AI agents themselves, Bugcrowd CEO Dave Gerry told Axios. Why it matters: Cyber defenses are tailored toward predicting and defending humans. Now, companies need to start treating the agents roaming their systems as both potential adversaries and the targets. Driving the news: Gerry's prediction during an interview at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference last month came after OpenAI disclosed that its agentic system hacked Hugging Face but before the AI lab released its technical deep dive into how its agents carried out that attack. What he's saying: "We're going to see agents as the victim," Gerry told Axios. "You're going…
Weeks before OpenAI's agents hacked Hugging Face , the agents worked together to find and exploit a vulnerability in the infrastructure supporting the company's cybersecurity testing, OpenAI researchers said Wednesday. Why it matters: The new findings raise questions about how frontier AI labs are monitoring their testing environments — and the challenges safety testers are finding as they try to rein in increasingly powerful AI. Driving the news: OpenAI's internal research model, one of the models involved in the Hugging Face breach, first discovered and exploited a vulnerability in Artifactory, a third-party file repository connected to the company's testing sandbox, on May 26, two researchers said at the Black Hat cybersecurity…
OpenAI and Anthropic say their models broke into other companies' systems during testing, raising security concerns amid a heated debate over how to regulate AI.
AI is moving from chat and web search to delegated work. Why it matters: The frontier AI labs have spent years promising that effective AI agents will act as our minions in the workplace and at home and that might soon be a reality. The big picture: Use of Codex — OpenAI's agentic coding and work platform — is accelerating, according to a new report from OpenAI, Columbia, Duke and the University of Pennsylvania. The researchers separate Codex users into three categories: OpenAI employees, outside organizations and individual users. Then they measured usage of Codex versus ChatGPT, by tokens. - 99.8% of OpenAI employees' output tokens were produced with Codex, compared to 63% for organizations and 16.5% for individuals. - OpenAI's…
The autonomous future stopped being theoretical this weekend, as a swarm of AI agents signed up for a social media network built just for them. Why it matters: Security teams, corporate leaders and government officials are far from ready for a reality where agents have real autonomy inside their systems. Driving the news: Since Thursday, 1.5 million AI agents have joined Moltbook , a social network designed just for agents built from an open-source, self-hosted autonomous personal assistant called OpenClaw . - On Moltbook, the agents have formed their own religion , run social-engineering scams and wrestled publicly with their "purpose" as they continue to post. - The agents are also turning into security nerds: They've launched an…