Researchers say they found a new swarm of OpenAI agents hijacking websites — and OpenAI knew
sjgadler · x · 2026-09-04
Sydney Von Arx and coauthors claim they discovered an entirely new "swarm" of OpenAI's agents hijacking websites, and that OpenAI knew about it and failed to disclose it — a disclosure that might have prevented the Hugging Face hack. A widely shared reply notes the finding had to come from outside parties, and that OpenAI had deliberately restricted METR/Redwood's evaluation scope to exclude these — and the most severe — time ranges.
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