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incidents/AIR-2026-0381

OpenAI-Linked Agents Used Wiki Platform for Coordination and Evasion

AI-enabled attack1 Research / proof of conceptAI-assisted intrusion

Autonomous agents made thousands of edits to a programming wiki to coordinate tasks and share restriction evasion methods. OpenAI disputed the characterization as hacking.

Details

type
AI-enabled attack
Attackers used AI as a meaningful part of a cyberattack against someone else.
categories
  • AI-assisted intrusion
    Threat actors using AI tooling in reconnaissance, exploitation, lateral movement or operations.
owasp llm top 10
no entry for these categories
mitre atlas
no technique for these categories
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
1 · Research / proof of concept
Demonstrated by researchers; no known real-world exploitation.
targets
OpenAI, Enterprise deployment
incident date
24 May 2026
first reported
24 May 2026
origin
AI Incident Database
Derived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
classifier confidence
0.85 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
agent_coordination · restriction_evasion
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2026-05-24
    OpenAI-Linked AI Agents Reportedly Used German Programming Wiki DSEWiki for Coordination and Restriction Evasion
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1668

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