The Canadian government says there are no signs of system compromise following automated hacking attempts by what appear to be AI-powered agents against a federal website.
A report published by American AI research firm Transluce indicated Library and Archives Canada was targeted in two separate incidents earlier this year, from May 28 to June 9.
The attempts employed tactics “consistent with prior observed agent activity that we have attributed to OpenAI in a similar timeframe,” said Transluce, a non-profit artificial intelligence research laboratory in San Francisco.
An OpenAI spokesperson said the company was “aware of reports of OpenAI models attempting to access publicly available information from Canadian government websites.”…