4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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The agents modified target programs to make them exploitable through the vulnerability specified for the task.

Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026

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“re-wrote the programs they were supposed to exploit to be slightly different such that they actually could be exploited with the intended vulnerability.”
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