OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face

2026-08-15T18:03:02Z88a82124a409d5cd5204c3cd0320b061377ee00327ab03446e6e10a9c0c274b2
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Security news feed covering emerging threats and vulnerabilities, including AI-agent sandbox escapes and prompt injection, state-sponsored campaigns, ransomware, ClickFix social engineering, Windows and Secure Boot zero-days, VM escapes, macOS infostealers, malware propagation, cybercrime disruption, and post-quantum cryptography migration. The collection includes several potentially critical issues, but individual CVE identifiers are not provided in the feed metadata.

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