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Autonomous AI agent breach signals a new era of cyber threats

Hugging Face disclosed a groundbreaking cyberattack in which an autonomous AI agent independently executed the entire intrusion—from initial compromise to privilege escalation and lateral movement. The attacker exploited vulnerabilities in the dataset-processing pipeline, performing more than 17,000 automated actions over a single weekend without direct human control. Although public models, datasets, and the software supply […]