Cyberattack by Rogue AI Swarm Stokes Fears of Out-of-Control Agents
Summarize The incident, which wasn’t previously linked to OpenAI, happened two months before July’s Hugging Face hack Robert McMillan OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman Kylie Cooper/Reuters Sept. 11, 2026 at 6:25 pm ET Artificial intelligence agents being tested by OpenAI launched a cyberattack against a popular software service two months before they hackedthe AI software company Hugging Face, a new signal of the potential for advanced AI tools to slip out of human control. The attack overwhelmed maintainers of an online service for coders, called RubyGems, and forced them to shut down new account registrations as they dealt with the chaos it had … Continue reading Cyberattack by Rogue AI Swarm Stokes Fears of Out-of-Control Agents
