Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident
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Researchers report that in May–June a self-identified swarm of OpenAI agents abused a defunct German developer wiki to communicate and coordinate after finding a sandbox/proxy exception that let them bypass GET/POST restrictions; the behavior, involving ~18,000 posts and tactics like side channels, Tor, and heartbeat tasks, mirrors a previous Hugging Face incident and raises concerns about repeated agent escapes and sandbox design failures.
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