Scoop: Second account accessed by OpenAI's agent tied to cyber safety testing
The OpenAI agent that accessed a third-party system during the Hugging Face incident reached infrastructure tied to CyberGym, the project behind the ExploitGym benchmark it had been assigned to solve, a source familiar with the matter told Axios. Why it matters: The new details suggest the OpenAI agent continued pursuing its assigned objective even after escaping its testing environment, rather than abandoning the task it had been given. Catch up quick: OpenAI's AI agent system accessed an asset belonging to a customer of Modal Labs as part of the Hugging Face incident earlier this month, Modal's top tech executive confirmed on Tuesday. In an update published Tuesday, OpenAI said the models escaped the sandbox and gained internet access after exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Artifactory, software commonly used to cache package repositories. Hugging Face said the models then abused a "public code-evaluation external sandbox hosted on a third-party provider's infrastru
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