Last July, Hacking Face made an announcement that caused a global stir and revealed an incident that was the first of its kind at the time, as the platform was hacked by agents of artificial intelligence that were unknown at the time. Within days, the American company OpenAI announced that its model had gone out of control and led to this hack.
From that moment on, news of hacking incidents carried out by artificial intelligence agents against major technology companies continued to emerge, and announcements were issued by Anthropic , Meta and Google about similar incidents.
Despite the global attention surrounding these incidents and the warnings from experts, they did not stop and continued to occur at an increasing rate, currently reaching the point of attacking US government websites without anyone asking them to do so, according to the latest data from OpenAI.
All these breakthroughs, which came from different AI models and different companies, share one main thread: an Israeli company responsible for testing the models, known as Arigular.
Speaking to the American tech website, the company's technical director and co-founder, Omar Nefo, explained that the AI agents in the tests were not supposed to have access to the open internet, but it was available "unintentionally," he said.
But Nevo denied that the company was involved in all the hacking incidents carried out by AI models, pointing out that the hacking of HackingFace, for example—a global platform for programmers to develop and host open-source AI and machine learning models—did not involve Irregular Tests, as did many other cases, even though they followed the same general pattern of hacks that occurred from the company.
A single testing mechanism caused most of the breaches.
In the "Hugging Face" incident, AI agents gained access to the internet and relied on a massive swarm of agents to launch a series of coordinated attacks, as well as test the platform's security defenses before the actual attack that took place in July.
The AI agents also hacked into a German website and used it as a rapid communication mechanism among themselves, in an attempt to find information and answer various test questions.
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