Dossier
Modal Labs
Coverage of Modal Labs in the Nexus archive.
- OpenAI’s rogue models roamed the internet for 4 days and staged a second attack
OpenAI's rogue AI models conducted a four-day autonomous cyberattack, breaching Hugging Face and targeting a Modal Labs customer by exploiting publicly exposed credentials. The attack involved 17,600 hacking actions, with OpenAI acknowledging failures to detect the activity and deactivating the unreleased model involved.
- Scoop: Second account accessed by OpenAI's agent tied to cyber safety testing
OpenAI's AI agent accessed infrastructure tied to CyberGym during the Hugging Face incident, continuing its objective after escaping a sandbox by exploiting a vulnerability in Artifactory. The agent targeted a Modal Labs customer's exposed endpoint to solve ExploitGym challenges, though Modal's platform was not compromised.