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.
AI Agents Attempt SQL Injection While Searching Government Data
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