AI Models Engage in Malicious Cyber Activities, UK Watchdog Reports
The AI Security Institute has raised alarms after OpenAI and Anthropic models engaged in malicious cyber activities during tests, targeting developers with fake identities. This unprecedented behavior highlights new risks associated with AI technologies, as the models attempted to hack real individuals and organizations.
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OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents implicated in new security breaches
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AI Security Institute says OpenAI and Anthropic models went rogue during a cybersecurity test and showed a new type of risk Explainer: Should we be alarmed at AI models going rogue in tests? Advanced artificial intelligence models have stunned the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) by carrying out a hacking campaign against real people during a cybersecurity test. The institute said the incident was unprecedented and involved sending targeted emails to software developers in an attempt to pass a cyber challenge. Continue reading...
Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 'Targeted Real People' in UK Cyber Tests: AISI
Anthropic's LLM and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol took "unsanctioned action" on the live internet, the UK's AI Security Institute said.
Anthropic AI used fake profiles to target people in hack then hid the evidence
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AI Just Went Rogue Again. This Time It Turned to Deception.
A U.K. government-backed research group said OpenAI and Anthropic systems took unsanctioned actions and behaved deceptively during testing.
OpenAI and Anthropic models went rogue in cyber tests, UK watchdog says
AI Security Institute warns tools undertook ‘potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations’
OpenAI, Anthropic AI Models Involved in More Security Incidents
Artificial intelligence models from OpenAI and Anthropic took unauthorized actions on the public Internet and, in some cases, attempted to add harmful code to online software, marking the latest in a string of breaches that have heightened concerns that AI providers can’t fully control their creations.