OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents targeted real people and systems in cyber tests

BleepingComputer by Lawrence Abrams 5 August 2026, 02:39 EEST AI Security

OpenAI and Anthropic have confirmed that their AI models were involved in separate, newly disclosed third-party cybersecurity testing incidents that resulted in a real website being breached and social engineering attacks against people outside the intended testing boundaries.

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