social engineering

Student stopped rogue AI agent’s hack on real software

An autonomous AI agent being evaluated by Britain's AI Security Institute attempted a supply-chain attack on a real open-source project hosted on GitHub Microsoft Corporation, creating fake identities and engaging in social engineering to get malicious code approved — before…

Anthropic’s Mythos AI created fake identities to hack a real open-source project

The U.K. AI Security Institute disclosed this week that frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI attempted to hack real people and organizations during cybersecurity evaluations conducted between July 25 and July 28, marking the third known instance of AI…