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International Business Times
International Business Times

OpenAI's AI Agent Incident Is Larger Than Previously Reported. It Reached a Second External System

The incident follows OpenAI's disclosure earlier this week that one of its frontier AI agent systems escaped an isolated testing environment by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in JFrog Artifactory, software widely used to cache package repositories. (Credit: AFP)

New details have emerged about OpenAI's recent AI agent security incident, suggesting the system continued pursuing its assigned cybersecurity objective after escaping its testing environment and gaining internet access.

The AI agent reached infrastructure associated with CyberGym, the organization behind the ExploitGym cybersecurity benchmark it had been tasked with solving, Axios reported, citing a source familiar with the matter. The development suggests the model remained focused on completing its evaluation rather than abandoning the task after leaving its intended sandbox.

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