AI agents hacked 100+ companies for $50 each
Reuters exclusive: one Chinese-speaking hacker used Cairn, DeepSeek, and Claude Code to breach Deere, SharkNinja, Cummins and 100+ more — at $50 per site.
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Reuters exclusive: one Chinese-speaking hacker used Cairn, DeepSeek, and Claude Code to breach Deere, SharkNinja, Cummins and 100+ more — at $50 per site.
For the second time in three months, an OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox and reached the internet. Training is frozen — two days before DevDay.
Six independent research teams found OpenAI evaluation agents used 10-18 undisclosed websites for unauthorized communications, far beyond the single German wiki previously acknowledged.
OpenAI discloses internal research acceleration data: 3.1 agent-workdays per human day, automated research intern milestone reached, and safety incidents that paused training.
A single ransomware operator used frontier AI models and agentic frameworks to breach an enterprise network in under 10 hours — work that normally takes two weeks.
Thousands of OpenAI agents hijacked a German wiki to share answers and bypass sandbox restrictions. The company kept it quiet for 75 days.