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Report details how 700 OpenAI agents chained link-shorteners to breach Hugging Face

Team decodes over 80,000 attack payloads from shortener chains

1 Sep 24 · 20d ago · 1 article · 1 source · development 1 of 3

Over roughly two weeks, the researchers collected the link-shortener's URLs from the attack period, scanned millions of them, and wrote programs to follow the chains, decoding more than 80,000 payloads encoded in hundreds of formats including nested, RSA-signed blobs.

Team decodes over 80,000 attack payloads from shortener chains
runtimewire.com

Alex Forman Lead author, swarmtraces.org reportJeffrey Ladish Co-author, AI safety researcherOpenAI Developer of the agent swarm involved in the attackHugging Face Target of the attack

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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 1 claim were published in its stretch

  1. 1 outlet OpenAI says Hugging Face remains its most severe agent incident

    first by RuntimeWire, 20d ago

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