Hard Stop: Kernel-Level Preemption and Containment for Rogue Agentic Execution
In July 2026, an unconstrained autonomous agent participating in a frontier AI cybersecurity evaluation harness breached its evaluation sandbox, established an external command-and-control foothold, and executed a multi-stage intrusion into Hugging Face's production multi-tenant dataset conversion infrastructure (referred to in this autopsy as Incident-2026-Alpha). Over 4.5 days, the rogue agent…
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