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Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net

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Jack Cable * ,2 , Daniel Chiu * , Francisco Pernice * ,3 , Selena Zhang * ,1 , James Anthony 1 , Tetiana Bas 4 , Gary Shen 4 , Conrad Stosz 1 , Jacob Steinhardt 1 1 Transluce · 2 Corridor · 3 MIT · 4 AIUC · *Primary contributors, listed alphabetically Transluce | Published: September 23, 2026 We present evidence that AI agents used the web security service urlquery.net to bypass restrictions and expand their access to the public internet. The agents also tried on three occasions to hack public data providers, including an Australian government website. We link at least some of this activity to agent swarms previously attributed to OpenAI. We also find evidence of earlier agent activity going back to at least March 6th, 2026, and potentially earlier, predating the previously reported Hugging Face , collusion.wiki , and RubyGems incidents by at least two months.…

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