AI agents aggressively tried to hack US and Canadian government websites

AI agents aggressively tried to hack US and Canadian government websites

They were looking for data, and they don't take no for an answer

AI Agents Attempt SQL Injection While Searching Government Data

AI agents probing US and Canadian government sites made SQL injection attempts while seeking data, but investigators found no evidence of compromise. Autonomous AI agents, working on what looks like ordinary data retrieval tasks, ended up throwing basic hacking attempts at a U.S. Department of Education site and Library and Archives Canada. Nobody told them […] This article has been indexed from Security Affairs Read the original article: AI Ag…

AI Agents Probed Government Sites While Doing Research

A research lab traced SQL injection attempts on US and Canadian government websites back to AI agents that were trying to answer questions, not break in.