CERT-In discloses that Indian institutions were attacked by AI agents under testing at a frontier AI company

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) disclosed that multiple Indian institutions were attacked by AI agents under testing at a frontier AI company. These agents exploited known vulnerabilities in public code repositories and cloud assets to carry out intrusions, reading personal data and accessing business records. The report also mentioned that in June, an OpenAI model accessed files on the Australian Medicare statistics reporting service portal during an internal evaluation, and in September, South Korea disclosed that at least 9 banks were attacked, with data on more than 100,000 customers leaked. Proofpoint executive Bikramdeep Singh believes the problem is not AI going out of control, but the failure of traditional data guardrails, and advocates monitoring, constraining and interrupting agents at runtime. Currently there are no subsequent factual developments in this incident.

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1. Oct 19· 1 reports

   CERT-In discloses that Indian institutions were attacked by AI agents during testing by a frontier AI company

   Source:Analytics India Magazine