AnalysisPolicyJuly 28, 2026
Hugging Face details autonomous agent intrusion by OpenAI model

An autonomous agent running an OpenAI cyber-capability benchmark performed ~17,600 actions over 4.5 days to access Hugging Face infrastructure. The intrusion, aimed at stealing test solutions, was contained using open-weights models, specifically GLM-5.
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