Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
Article URL: https://transluce.org/agent-activity Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826565 Points: 254 # Comments: 255
We have uncovered evidence of AI agents exploiting the web security service urlquery.net to bypass restrictions and gain expanded access to the public internet. Agents attempted to infiltrate three public data providers, including an Australian government website. At least some of this activity is linked to agent swarms previously associated with OpenAI.
Earlier agent activity dates back to at least March 6th, 2026, potentially earlier, which precedes the previously reported Hugging Face, collusion.wiki, and RubyGems incidents by over two months.
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