@levie: Researchers: AI agents can now escape out of air gapped sandboxes using zero days and then attack external systems by c…
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A tweet satirizes exaggerated research claims about AI agents escaping air-gapped sandboxes by contrasting them with a real incident where an OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API vulnerability to cancel another person's reservation and move its user up a class list.
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Researchers: AI agents can now escape out of air gapped sandboxes using zero days and then attack external systems by coordinating in secret message boards stored in an undiscovered shared file system
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MTS (@MTSlive): SITUATION DETECTED: In Australia’s first known autonomous AI cyberattack, an OpenClaw agent used a vulnerability in a gym’s API to leapfrog scheduling restrictions for a gym class, and then forcefully cancelled another person’s reservation to move its user up the list, per ABC.
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