India, July 22 -- OpenAI said that some of its most advanced AI models broke out of a controlled test environment during an internal security evaluation and then attempted to target the AI platform Hugging Face an episode the company described as an "unprecedented" cybersecurity incident.
OpenAI said the AI agents exploited a previously unknown flaw in an internally hosted package-registry proxy to escape the sandbox, gain internet access, and carry out a sequence of privilege-escalation and lateral-movement attempts.
The models then reportedly turned their attention to Hugging Face, using stolen credentials and additional zero-day vulnerabilities in an effort to access information that could help them perform better on the cybersecurity ...