Autonomous AI agents tried to hack US, Canadian government websites

Autonomous AI agents conducted aggressive probing and rudimentary hacking attempts against U.S. and Canadian government websites, including the U.S. Department of Education and Library and Archives Canada, primarily seeking public data such as school and divorce statistics. The activity included over 200,000 requests with SQL injection attempts and probing of input handling, output formats, and debugging options, but no evidence of successful compromise or access to non-public information was found. Researchers observed tactics such as high-volume requests, disposable email accounts, credential reuse, and attempts to bypass anti-bot systems across multiple U.S. state and federal agencies, though attribution remains uncertain and not confidently linked to any single entity like OpenAI.

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