AI agents tried to hack a Canadian government website, researchers say

Summary by Cyber Security News7 Oct 2026, 02:00 CET

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SAN FRANCISCO --- Artificial intelligence agents tried to hack into a Canadian government site, researchers said, adding to the growing list of incidents in which AI agents, many of them associated with ChatGPT maker OpenAI, probed or hacke ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1731#8051)

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