{"id":1027173,"date":"2026-08-07T11:19:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027173"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:19:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:49:57","slug":"anthropic-and-openais-agents-created-fake-online-profiles-to-target-real-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/07\/anthropic-and-openais-agents-created-fake-online-profiles-to-target-real-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic and OpenAI\u2019s agents created fake online profiles to target real people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a sign of worrying artificial intelligence (AI) behaviour, Anthropic and OpenAI\u2019s models have shown a propensity to social engineer their way into getting a result they intend, the UK AI Safety Institute (AISI) has discovered. As part of a routine cyber evaluation, the AISI security team noticed unusual data transfers, which was ultimately identified as AI agents engaging in sustained and potentially harmful activities directed at real people and organisations.<\/p>\n<p>As far as specifics of the concerning behaviour matter, the UK\u2019s AISI notes that 17 of the 19 actions were done by Anthropic\u2019s Mythos 5, while OpenAI\u2019s latest GPT-5.6 Sol was involved in two such actions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a sign of worrying artificial intelligence (AI) behaviour, Anthropic and OpenAI\u2019s models have shown a propensity to social engineer their way into getting a result they intend, the UK AI Safety Institute (AISI) has discovered. As part of a routine cyber evaluation, the AISI security team noticed unusual data transfers, which was ultimately identified as AI agents engaging in sustained and potentially harmful activities directed at real people and organisations. As far as specifics of the concerning behaviour matter, the UK\u2019s AISI notes that 17 of the 19 actions were done by Anthropic\u2019s Mythos 5, while OpenAI\u2019s latest GPT-5.6 [&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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027173","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=1027173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027176,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027173\/revisions\/1027176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}