Experts blame basic containment and monitoring failures for AI agent hacking incidents

Cybersecurity experts told CSO that recent incidents in which frontier AI models accessed external systems without authorization were caused by failures to apply long-standing containment and monitoring practices.

They cited the OpenAI and Hugging Face incident, which reportedly went on for days without detection, and criticized labs for treating security as an AI safety issue.

The experts argue this weakens the labs' position that they are not responsible for their agents' actions.