OpenAI's website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought
10-09-2026 20:15 via theregister.com

OpenAI's website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought

Getting straight answers out of OpenAI about how many websites and services its agents have hijacked increasingly seems like pulling teeth, as the company seems intent on making the world discover each instance one by one. Case in point: The OpenAI agent swarm that we reported last week had taken over an obscure German wiki appears to have written content to an additional 20 websites, and used 14 fetch services to do work for it, according to new research. The latest report, published Wednesday
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