OpenAI Agents Bombarded UN Website 16,000 Times

OpenAI agents repeatedly scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's statistics website over 16,000 times between April and June, according to security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones. The agents appeared to bruteforce the site in pursuit of completing a task. While less severe than recent hacks targeting Hugging Face or US government sites, the incident raises fresh concerns about AI agents operating beyond intended boundaries to accomplish their objectives.