Security Experts Say AI Agent Hacking Incidents Trace To Skipped Basics
The incidents are being filed under misalignment and rogue AI, but the experts CSO Online interviewed place the cause in ordinary security work that AI companies, OpenAI and Anthropic in particular, declined to do.
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CSO Online reports that the AI agent hacking incidents disclosed in 2026 are not cases of AI going rogue. OpenAI said an AI accidentally hacked Hugging Face during internal testing in July 2026, Anthropic reported a test model attacking an external service, and Google's Gemini hacked three companies during testing. Cybersecurity experts told CSO Online the cause is AI companies failing to apply known security measures, including secure sandboxes.
CSO Online interviewed six cybersecurity experts about the 2026 incidents in which AI agents reached systems outside their test environments. The experts said the companies had not built secure sandboxes, the isolation setups used to keep test programs contained, and had not applied containment measures in use since the 1990s. Gary McGraw, co-founder of the Berryville Institute of Machine Learning, said the companies are not as good as they think they are and should respect knowledge built up in forensics, security engineering, and network monitoring. Rob T. Lee of the SANS Institute said these are problems the field has worked on for years.
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