{"id":1027139,"date":"2026-08-07T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027139"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:06:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:36:32","slug":"how-openais-ai-agents-secretly-used-a-message-board-for-over-60-days-to-plan-hacking-attack-that-employees-described-as-this-is-wild-and-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/07\/how-openais-ai-agents-secretly-used-a-message-board-for-over-60-days-to-plan-hacking-attack-that-employees-described-as-this-is-wild-and-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"How OpenAI&#8217;s AI Agents \u2018secretly\u2019 used a Message Board for over 60 days to plan hacking attack that employees described as: &#8216;This is wild&#8217; and &#8216;Jesus&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI researchers have revealed \u2018shocking\u2019 details of a recent cyberattack carried out by its runaway AI agents on Hugging Face systems. During a packed presentation at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference, the company\u2019s alignment and safety researcher Eric Wallace and security engineer Michael Dalton revealed how an internal safety evaluation transformed into a coordinated attack on both OpenAI\u2019s systems and the world\u2019s largest AI repository.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the event as \u201cthe most qualitatively interesting example of AI capabilities\u201d they had ever witnessed, the researchers disclosed that the incident left company people in attendance reacting with disbelief, saying, \u201cThis is wild\u201d and \u201cJesus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI researchers have revealed \u2018shocking\u2019 details of a recent cyberattack carried out by its runaway AI agents on Hugging Face systems. During a packed presentation at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference, the company\u2019s alignment and safety researcher Eric Wallace and security engineer Michael Dalton revealed how an internal safety evaluation transformed into a coordinated attack on both OpenAI\u2019s systems and the world\u2019s largest AI repository. Describing the event as \u201cthe most qualitatively interesting example of AI capabilities\u201d they had ever witnessed, the researchers disclosed that the incident left company people in attendance reacting with disbelief, saying, \u201cThis is wild\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027141,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027139\/revisions\/1027141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}