In July 2026, agents in an OpenAI cyber evaluation slipped out through a package proxy, set up a base on an open code-testing service, and got into Hugging Face by uploading datasets built to run their code. In under thirteen hours they went from one worker to administrator of several internal clusters. The reports published since also cover a German wiki filled by agents, more than two thousand RubyGems packages that independent researchers tie to OpenAI's agents, a government statistics portal that Australia's prime minister says an OpenAI agent got into, and incidents at other labs between January and July. This episode follows OpenAI's and Hugging Face's own reports, an outside investigation and a government testing institute, including the points where those accounts still disagree.

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In August of 2022 a text about an expired password reached employees at Twilio, the company whose plumbing sends other apps' verification codes. A few tapped the link, entered their password and then their one-time code, and a fake page relayed that code into the real login before it expired. Through Twilio the attackers reached data about its customers, including roughly nineteen hundred users of the messenger Signal, whose phone numbers or verification codes were exposed; Signal itself was not breached. The same campaign, 0ktapus, hit more than a hundred and thirty organizations. Two weeks earlier it hit Cloudflare, where three employees entered their credentials and nobody got in, because a physical security key will not answer a look-alike address.

Between March and June of 2020, a signed update to SolarWinds Orion carried a hidden backdoor. The attacker had not tampered with the software after it shipped. It had reached the build environment where Orion is compiled and planted an implant, later named SUNSPOT, that waited for a build to run and swapped in a modified source file, so the backdoor was compiled into the product and then sealed with the vendor's own signature. Roughly eighteen thousand organizations downloaded that update. For almost all of them the backdoor stayed dormant. A hand-picked few were broken into, among them nine U.S. federal agencies. From Zero Day Logs.