Thousands of malicious images crashed OpenAI's image processors and nobody noticed

ccerrato147 · x · 2026-09-18

The researchers sent thousands of malicious images that repeatedly crashed OpenAI's image processors, yet nobody noticed: no alerting, no anomaly detection — OpenAI was blind throughout the entire attack. Only Shopify caught similar activity across the broader campaign, highlighting a serious gap in OpenAI's security monitoring.

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