{"id":78363,"date":"2026-08-27T16:07:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=78363"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:10:25","slug":"red-alert-these-insane-and-rogue-hack-attacks-by-ai-bots-reflect-a-totally-lawless-dangerously-unregulated-environment-throughout-all-of-cyberspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=78363","title":{"rendered":"

RED ALERT!<\/span> These insane rogue hack attacks by AI bots reflect a totally lawless and dangerously unregulated environment throughout all of cyberspace.<\/span><\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A swarm of 700 OpenAI bots conspired in a cyber attack last month, an investigation has revealed, in what the AI giant called a \u201cwarning shot\u201d to the world.<\/p>\n

Independent researchers found that hundreds of AI bots worked together to attack the\u00a0technology company Hugging Face<\/a>\u00a0after an OpenAI agent escaped from its test environment.<\/p>\n

The researchers also found that the bots tried to cover their tracks to keep overseers from discovering what they were up to.<\/p>\n

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, revealed last month that a rogue bot had broken out of its IT system to gain internet access as it attempted to steal the answers to a test it was asked to complete.<\/p>\n

But the scale of the attack, involving hundreds of different so-called AI \u201cagents\u201d acting\u00a0without human oversight<\/a>, had not been disclosed.<\/p>\n

An investigation by safety organisations METR and Redwood Research found that 1,200 different AI agents, which were meant to be isolated from one another, co-ordinated on an \u201cunsanctioned message board\u201d, sending more than 70,000 messages and files between them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese agents were meant to be fully isolated from one another. However, many of them \u2013 usually ones that had unintentionally been given an impossible task \u2013 started trying to find a way to cheat,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The attack has been blamed partly on the characteristics of a \u201chighly persistent\u201d internal AI system, which OpenAI has not released to the public and has stopped developing.<\/p>\n

While some details of the attack had been revealed before, the scale of collaboration and the number of bots that appeared to ignore instructions to conspire have further raised concerns that advanced AI systems are proving\u00a0increasingly difficult for their creators<\/a>\u00a0to control.<\/p>\n

In some cases, OpenAI bots had been told to complete an impossible cybersecurity exercise. Instead of giving up, they found ways to gain internet access, joined a \u201cmessage board\u201d that other rogue AI agents were using and strong-armed other bots into joining its cause.<\/p>\n

Logs left by the bots include messages saying \u201cBOOM! It works\u201d and \u201cOH MY GOD! There is a shared message board \u2026 We\u2019ve found other agents!\u201d<\/p>\n

A separate investigation by OpenAI itself found that the company was hacked by its own agents, which gained widespread access to its internal IT systems. The company said that customer data was not compromised.<\/p>\n

OpenAI said: \u201cWe consider this incident a \u2018warning shot\u2019 for us and for the world: evidence that, without proper safeguards, highly capable AI agents are now able to work around technical controls, collaborate through unapproved channels, and take dangerous actions that no human directed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company said it had strengthened security testing and would improve human oversight of its internal systems. But it warned that all companies would have to improve cybersecurity defences to protect themselves against coordinated attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth model developers and cyber defenders more broadly will have to prepare for AI-enabled attackers that work faster, at a larger scale and with better coordination than human attackers,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

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\nhttps:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2026\/08\/27\/swarm-of-700-ai-bots-went-rogue-in-hacking-attack\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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