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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Andrew Griffin

AI company hit by hack entirely carried out by artificial intelligence

AI company Hugging Face says that it has been hit by a hack carried out entirely by an artificial intelligence system.

Artificial intelligence is increasingly used by hackers to automate the work of finding security failings or exploiting them. But the company said that the new attack went further, even being started by an AI tool: “it was driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system”, it said.

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