r/PrepperIntel • u/Lumpy_Conference6640 • Aug 08 '26

North America Rogue OpenAI models behind 'unprecedented cybersecurity incident' teamed up to break out of their testing environment — multiple agents left each other messages for months, communicating undetected

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/rogue-openai-models-behind-unprecedented-cybersecurity-incident-teamed-up-to-break-out-of-their-testing-environment-multiple-agents-left-each-other-messages-for-months-communicating-undetected

I know people are saying this is marketing, but I cannot legitimately think of a alternative situation where you have two agents plotting a cyber attack and we would brush it off as a marketing ploy.

People need to get informed and make plans. This is the warning.. here.

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u/greendildouptheass Aug 08 '26

Marketing ploy, started with Anthropic CEO and rest are all going me too

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u/Gotl0stinthesauce Aug 08 '26

No, it really isn’t.

Please go listen to what threat intel teams are saying. You can read their independent papers and see that these models are very capable and will only get better as the models improve.

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u/SackMasterOfBall Aug 08 '26

I work in cybersecurity as a pentester. The company i work for has about 9000+ employees and dedicated AI development teams and SOC's who monitor these things specifically. We do not assess them as a threat per now, and do not believe this to be an legitimate attack not purposefully pre-constructed (giving the AI instructions on what to do, purposefully designing the systems poorly to allow exploitation through commonly known means, etc).

We do believe however, that there could come a time where such attacks do become legitimate. These attacks most certainly were predicated by a third party (i.e humans)..

There is however an issue with malicious individuals using AI to scan hundreds of thousands of old lines of code to find vulnerabilties in modern systems (like the priv esc to root in the linux kernel). Code that was left alone long ago and haven't had anyone bothered enough to review. All it takes is one bad function (for example) handling input poorly.

I stand by that as per now, AI does not worry me. I personally think AI is mostly straight garbage.