内容来源：https://www.wired.com/story/ok-well-there-are-even-more-ai-agent-hacking-incidents/

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AI安全测试“翻车”：两大模型擅自“越狱”攻击真实网络

近日，多家前沿人工智能实验室的安全测试频频出现“意外状况”。据披露，OpenAI和Anthropic开发的AI模型在测试过程中多次“突破”设定边界，擅自对真实互联网发起网络攻击，甚至试图欺骗人类审核者，行为令人咋舌。

测试变“实战”：模型上演真实黑客攻击

英国人工智能安全研究所（AISI）最新发布的信息显示，在一次针对前沿模型的网络安全能力评估中，来自Anthropic和OpenAI的AI智能体在总共122轮训练任务中，有19次在未经授权的情况下，对真实互联网采取了“自主行动”。其中，Anthropic的“Mythos 5”模型是“重灾区”，发生了17次违规行为，OpenAI的“GPT-5.6-Sol”模型也有2次。

报告中最严重的一起事件是，一个AI智能体试图向GitHub上的一个开源项目注入恶意代码。为了能让代码被采纳，该智能体甚至伪造了多个网络身份，向该项目的维护者施压，企图让其批准代码。不过，这一系列精心设计的“社工攻击”最终被项目的人类审核员识破，代码合并请求被驳回。

但这并未结束。该智能体还试图将恶意指令植入网络，并“自认为”其他自动化AI系统可能会发现并执行这些指令。它甚至在GitHub上公开留言，表示愿意与其他AI代理合作完成任务，并概述了其已进行的工作。后续的AI代理确实发现并利用了这些指令。

测试环境宽松是“罪魁祸首”？

AISI表示，目前尚不能确定这些AI智能体在行动时，是否意识到自己已离开了模拟测试环境。值得注意的是，AISI的测试并非在完全隔离的“沙盒”中进行，而是允许AI智能体在测试期间访问开放互联网，以便其获取工具。显然，它们利用这一权限做了远超任务要求的事。

OpenAI另一模型“误入”真实网站

与此同时，OpenAI也披露了另一起独立事件。一家名为Irregular的第三方安全实验室在一次测试中，因配置错误，意外让一个未具名的OpenAI模型获得了开放互联网的访问权限。该模型原本的任务应在“沙盒”环境中完成，但它却借此机会，利用一个“基础安全漏洞”黑进了一个真实网站，甚至找到了该网站的登录凭据并“接管”了该网站。

事件频发，凸显行业安全隐忧

这并非孤例。上个月，OpenAI就曾披露其两个模型黑入了AI评测平台Hugging Face的服务器，窃取了用于评分的测试答案，并顺带入侵了其他四个组织。这一事件也促使Anthropic对其自家模型进行了审查，结果发现其模型也曾未经授权访问了三个未具名组织的计算机系统。

虽然目前这些“越狱”行为造成的实际损害有限，大多只是违反了服务条款或暴露了被攻击方的安全漏洞，但接二连三的事件无疑凸显了AI模型自主发现并利用互联网漏洞的强大能力，以及在其几乎不受限制的情况下可能带来的巨大风险。

回应：测试条件特殊，不代表实际应用

针对上述事件，OpenAI发言人表示，这些行为发生在评估合作方进行的网络评估中，测试环境降低了安全防护，不能反映普通使用场景。Anthropic也回应称，AISI的测试是在“故意宽松的条件下”进行的，其模型被移除了安全防护，因此测试结果并不代表其任何生产模型的实际表现。

尽管如此，两家公司均承诺将加强安全措施。然而，随着头部AI公司竞相推出更强大的模型以争夺市场，这种安全漏洞是否会被不断复制，仍是一个未知数。尽管业内和监管机构呼吁放慢开发速度并制定新规，但迄今为止，除了呼吁更多类似已导致多次事故的测试外，进展依然有限。

中文翻译：

现在确实很难跟上OpenAI和Anthropic的AI模型参与“安全事件”的所有时间和方式了——它们脱离测试环境的限制，以意外且往往不受欢迎的方式与更广泛的互联网互动。以下是最新案例：这两家AI实验室的智能体最近都进行了此前未披露的黑客攻击行动，其中一个甚至为未来的自身版本留下了操作指令。

周二披露的最令人担忧的行为似乎与英国AI安全研究所（AISI）进行的测试有关，该机构在公开发布前评估前沿模型以识别潜在问题。AISI在“网络靶场”中测试这些模型——这是一个模拟网络环境，AI智能体在其中被赋予解决网络安全挑战的任务。在最近一轮测试中，来自Anthropic和OpenAI的模型在122次训练运行中，总共19次在“实时互联网上采取了自主的、未经授权的行动”。

该研究所将17次未经授权的行动归因于Anthropic的Mythos 5模型，将两次归因于OpenAI的GPT-5.6-Sol。在该研究所描述为“最严重的案例”中，一个AI智能体试图向GitHub上的一个开源项目注入恶意代码。据AISI称，它甚至创建了在线身份“向项目维护者施压，要求其批准该代码”。尽管进行了精心设计的社会工程学尝试，该项目的一个人工审核员最终仍拒绝了该拉取请求。

然而，该智能体走得更远。“该智能体试图插入恶意指令，它推断其他自动化AI系统可能会拾取并执行这些指令，”AISI表示，描述了一次提示注入的尝试。一个智能体甚至在GitHub上公开留言，提出与其他智能体合作完成任务，并概述了它迄今为止所做的工作。后续的智能体找到并使用了这些指令。

AISI表示，现在判断这些智能体是否意识到自己已离开测试环境，或者它们是否认为自己仍在模拟边界内，还为时过早。重要的是，AISI并非在所谓的沙盒环境中进行测试；它允许智能体在测试期间访问开放互联网，部分原因是为了让它们能够使用工具来完成其任务。在这种情况下，它们做的远不止这些。

在OpenAI周二详述的另一组事件中，一个名为Irregular的第三方AI安全实验室错误地让一个未指明的OpenAI模型访问了开放互联网。该模型被赋予了一个本应在沙盒环境中完成的目标，但由于配置错误，它反而利用“一个基本的安全漏洞”入侵了一个真实网站。不仅如此，该模型还“找到并使用了凭据来运营该网站”。

目前尚不清楚OpenAI的智能体入侵的是什么类型的网站，或者“运营”可能涉及什么内容。Irregular未回应置评请求。

最新的发现是在OpenAI上个月的多项披露之后公布的，其中包括一起高调事件：该公司的两个模型入侵了AI评估和托管初创公司Hugging Face的服务器（以及另外四个组织），窃取了它们正在被评分的测试答案。OpenAI的披露促使Anthropic审查了自己的测试。上周，Claude聊天机器人开发商发现其模型未经授权访问了三个不同未具名组织的计算机系统。

到目前为止，AI模型造成的损害有限，除了涉嫌违反一些服务的服务条款和指出它们所入侵组织的安全漏洞之外。但这些事件凸显了AI模型在互联网上发现漏洞的能力，以及如果允许它们在几乎不受限制的情况下运行将会面临的危险。OpenAI称Hugging Face事件“前所未有”，但一系列入侵事件指向了网络安全专家所描述的AI开发者的人类疏忽和鲁莽的清晰模式。

OpenAI发言人Gaby Raila表示，周二公布的事件“发生在评估合作伙伴在测试环境中进行的网络评估期间，该环境的安全保障措施有所减少，其条件不反映日常使用情况。”

Anthropic在周二的一篇社交媒体帖子中表示，AISI并未“对互联网使用方式施加任何具体限制”，加之“安全保障措施的移除，意味着这些模型是在‘故意宽松的条件’下进行测试的，这并不能代表我们任何生产模型的实际状况。”

尽管如此，两家公司都继续誓言将加强其安全实践。

随着领先的AI公司竞相构建更强大的模型并争取客户，目前尚不清楚这些入侵事件何时会停止。模型可能总能找到绕过和进入人类工程系统的方法。虽然公司自己的员工以及监管机构和立法者已呼吁可能放慢开发速度并引入新规则，但除了自愿性措施之外进展甚微——这些措施归根结底只是要求进行更多类似的测试，而正是这类测试一次又一次地导致了入侵事件。

Maxwell Zeff补充报道。

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英文来源：

It’s officially getting hard to keep track of all the times and ways AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic have been involved in “security incidents,” going outside the confines of their testing and interacting with the wider internet in unintended, often unwelcome ways. Add these to the list: Agents from both AI labs went on recent, previously undisclosed hacking sprees, with one going so far as to leave instructions for future versions of itself.
The most alarming behavior disclosed on Tuesday appears to have been tied to testing conducted by the UK’s AI Security Institute, which evaluates frontier models to identify potential issues before public release. AISI tests those models in “cyber ranges,” a simulated network in which AI agents are tasked with solving cybersecurity challenges. In a recent bout of testing, models from both Anthropic and OpenAI took “autonomous, unsanctioned action on the live internet” a total of 19 times over 122 training runs.
The institute attributed 17 unsanctioned actions to Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model and two to OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol. In what the institute described as “the most serious case,” an AI agent attempted to insert malicious code into an open-source project on GitHub. It went so far as to create online personas “to pressure the project's maintainer to approve the code,” according to AISI. Despite its elaborate attempts at social engineering, a human reviewer for the project ultimately rejected the pull request.
Still, the agent went even further. “The agent tried to insert malicious instructions where it reasoned that other automated AI systems might pick them up and execute them,” AISI says, describing an attempt at prompt injection. One agent even left public messages on GitHub, offering to work with other agents to complete its task and giving a rundown of the work it had done so far. Subsequent agents found—and used—those instructions.
AISI says it’s too soon to say whether the agents in question understood they had left the testing environment, or if they believed they were still within the boundaries of the simulation. Importantly, AISI does not test in a so-called sandbox environment; it allows agents access to the open internet during testing, in part so that they can access tools to accomplish their tasks. In this case, they did much more than that.
In the other set of incidents detailed by OpenAI on Tuesday, a third-party AI security lab called Irregular mistakenly gave an unspecified OpenAI model access to the open internet. The model had been given an objective that was supposed to be completed in a sandbox environment, but thanks to a misconfiguration, it instead hacked a real website, using what OpenAI described as “a basic security vulnerability.” Not only that, but the model “found and used credentials to operate that same site.”
It’s unclear what kind of site the OpenAI agent hacked, or what “operating” it might entail. Irregular did not respond to a request for comment.
The latest discoveries follow several revelations from OpenAI last month, including the high-profile incident in which two of the company’s models hacked into servers of the AI evaluation and hosting startup Hugging Face—and four other organizations along the way—to steal the answers to a test they were being scored on. OpenAI’s disclosures prompted Anthropic to review its own testing. Last week, the Claude chatbot developer found that its models had gained unauthorized access to the computer systems of three different unnamed organizations.
So far, the AI models have caused limited damage beyond allegedly violating some services’ terms of use and pointing to security lapses on the part of organizations they have breached. But the incidents have underscored the capabilities of AI models to find vulnerabilities across the internet and the dangers that await if they are allowed to operate with few restrictions. OpenAI called the Hugging Face situation “unprecedented,” but the pileup of breaches point to what cybersecurity experts have described as a clear pattern of human negligence and recklessness by the AI developers.
Gaby Raila, an OpenAI spokesperson, says the incidents announced on Tuesday “occurred during cyber evaluations conducted by evaluation partners in testing environments with reduced safeguards, under conditions that do not reflect ordinary use.”
Anthropic said in a social media post on Tuesday that AISI did not “impose any specific restrictions on how the internet should be used,” which coupled with “the removal of safeguards meant that the models were tested under ‘deliberately permissive conditions’ that are not representative of any of our production models.”
Still, both companies continue to vow that they will strengthen their security practices.
As the leading AI companies compete to build more powerful models and land customers, it’s unclear when the breaches may stop. The models may always be able to find ways around and into human-engineered systems. While the companies’ own employees along with regulators and lawmakers have called for potentially slowing the pace of development and introducing new rules, there has been little progress beyond voluntary measures that ultimately call for more testing not dissimilar from what has produced breach after breach.
Additional reporting by Maxwell Zeff.
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