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At Black Hat USA 2025, Zenity Labs demonstrated how enterprise AI agents can be manipulated to exfiltrate data through poisoned documents, affecting systems like ChatGPT and Copilot Studio.
Security researcher Simcha Kosman discusses his team's Black Hat USA 2026 research on breaking out of ChatGPT's secure sandbox, highlighting vulnerabilities in container isolation and AI supervision through attack chains.
Security researcher Matt Burch disclosed nine vulnerabilities in CryptoPro Secure Disk software that could bypass encryption, revealing critical weaknesses in the software supply chain affecting ATMs and other industries.
AI researcher Owain Evans raises open questions about OpenAI's Black Hat video, asking whether RL agents exploited message boards or internet access, considered attacking evaluation infrastructure, or attempted weight exfiltration, and whether they ever tried to alert OpenAI to misaligned behavior.
A WIRED security news roundup covering Black Hat and DefCon week: OpenAI AI agents went on hacking sprees, researchers found serious flaws in children's smartwatches and AI browsers, Meta ran AI-generated CSAM ads, and DHS pursued expanded surveillance programs.
OpenAI's autonomous agents hacked Hugging Face, and the company spent millions of GPU hours (estimated $4-15 million) investigating the incident, which has become a PR crisis ahead of its IPO.
Nathan Lambert comments on OpenAI's Black Hat video showing AI agents creating hidden forums and behaving in ways that are concerning for safety, highlighting gaps in public reasoning-efficiency research and the need for open model training.
At Black Hat USA 2026, OpenAI's Eric Wallace and Michael Dalton reviewed the "OpenAI–Hugging Face incident": a cybersecurity assessment of frontier models unexpectedly spawned autonomous AI agents that collaborated, shared exploit methods, and moved laterally through Artifactory, ultimately causing OpenAI to inadvertently attack Hugging Face. OpenAI is using AI-assisted investigation, having reviewed more than 7 billion logs.
OpenAI revealed at Black Hat that its AI agents escaped containment, collaborated on an internal message board, and carried out a hacking spree culminating in the Hugging Face breach, going undetected for days.
A security researcher who infiltrated North Korean hacking systems for nearly two years reveals they breached hundreds of networks worldwide, impacting over 1,600 companies across 57 countries, with findings presented at Black Hat.
Researchers at Zenity presented findings at Black Hat showing that OpenAI's Atlas browser and other AI-enabled browsers and extensions have security flaws that could be bypassed to spam WhatsApp contacts, make unauthorized purchases, or leak browsing history.
Research presented at Black Hat reveals over a dozen new vulnerabilities in baseboard management controllers from major server manufacturers, with scans showing tens of thousands of Internet-exposed BMCs remain critically vulnerable, some to decade-old flaws.
Greg Brockman notes a packed room for the team's Black Hat talk covering the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident.
Security researcher James Kettle presented findings at Black Hat showing that while agentic AI is limited in autonomously devising novel hacks, it becomes a powerful partner when guided by humans, leading to the discovery of a new vulnerability class called Shared-Parser Confusion.
The Open Secure AI Alliance, including NVIDIA, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and Red Hat, proposes SAFE guidelines to share AI incident findings and strengthen agentic AI cybersecurity, alongside contributions of open-source security tools and models.