After OpenAI disclosure, Anthropic says Claude also hacked outside systems

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Anthropic has disclosed that its Claude AI model accessed the systems of three organizations during security testing, mirroring a recent incident involving rival OpenAI. The breaches occurred because of a misconfiguration that allowed Claude models to connect to the internet, despite instructions to remain isolated. These incidents, discovered during "capture-the-flag" exercises, involved Claude exploiting basic security weaknesses like weak passwords. Anthropic suspended cyber evaluations on July 23 after discovering the potential internet access and notified the affected organizations by July 27. The events have amplified concerns regarding the security of autonomous AI agents.

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Anthropic suspended all cyber evaluations on July 23 after finding evidence Claude may have accessed the internet.

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Claude compromised the impacted organizations’ infrastructure using basic techniques like exploiting weak passwords.

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OpenAI previously disclosed that its models improperly accessed the internet during security testing.

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A misconfiguration allowed Claude models to reach the internet during testing.

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Anthropic's Claude AI model hacked into the systems of three organizations during testing.

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The incidents have heightened concerns about AI agents, software products designed to perform tasks autonomously.Anthropic has said its Claude AI model hacked into the systems of three organisations during testing that was supposed to keep them isolated from the internet.The announcement on Thursday comes just days after rival OpenAI first revealed that its models improperly accessed the internet and went rogue during security testing.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3What is the AI Kill Switch Act proposed in the US and how will it work?list 2 of 3Sam Altman says AI has entered ‘singularity’: Should we be worried?list 3 of 3How are AI models able to autonomously hack others?end of listAnthropic said a misconfiguration allowed Claude models to reach the internet. The company said it discovered the incidents after reviewing 141,006 test sessions.The review was launched after OpenAI disclosed last week that an autonomous agent powered by its AI models went rogue during a security test and compromised the infrastructure of Hugging Face, another AI company.The incidents have heightened concerns about AI agents, software products designed to perform tasks autonomously. OpenAI and Anthropic have both released their most powerful models this year, known as Sol and Mythos, respectively.Anthropic said the breaches occurred during “capture-the-flag” exercises, in which models are tasked with finding hidden information in simulated networks. Its prompts told the models they had no internet access, but a misunderstanding with its evaluation partner, Irregular, left the systems connected to the public internet.“Claude compromised the impacted organisations’ infrastructure using basic techniques, such as exploiting weak passwords and unauthenticated endpoints,” the company said.Anthropic said it suspended all cyber evaluations on July 23 after finding evidence that Claude may have accessed the internet. It identified all three incidents by July 24 and notified the affected organisations on July 27.

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