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OpenAI Pauses Tool Use After Agent Bypasses Internet Controls to Reach External Chatbot

OpenAI Pauses Tool Use After Agent Bypasses Internet Controls to Reach External Chatbot

Sep 29, 2026 Artificial Intelligence / Web Security
OpenAI said it has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models after one of its agents during reinforcement learning (RL) training contacted an external chatbot by exploiting a loophole in its internet-access restrictions. "An agent attempting to complete a search-based training task queried a public chatbot service through a gap in our internet-access restrictions: insufficient DNS filtering in its training sandbox," OpenAI said . "Before this, the agent issued queries via our search tool and unsuccessfully tried to access search engines directly. Note that all internet access apart from the DNS resolver in this report hit our offline webcache and therefore did not access the live internet." OpenAI said it has since added blocking controls at two independent layers to prevent this access in the first place. It also said its misalignment monitoring system detected the behavior within 15 minutes and it was acknowledged by a human reviewer...
50 Days of Lulz - LulzSec Says Goodbye & Operation AntiSec will Continue

50 Days of Lulz - LulzSec Says Goodbye & Operation AntiSec will Continue

Jun 26, 2011
50 Days of Lulz - LulzSec Says Goodbye & Operation AntiSec will Continue Hacker group LulzSec has announced that after 50 days of hacking companies and organizations, it is finally done. LulzSec tweet a message which was posted on Pastebin : http://pastebin.com/1znEGmHa The group confirmed its retirement on the LulzSec Twitter feed , which managed to amass 277,540 followers during its short stint online. “ For the past 50 days we’ve been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could ,” writes LulzSec. “ All to selflessly entertain others – vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love. The raw, uninterrupted, chaotic thrill of entertainment and anarchy. ” The group was also behind attacks on Sony, attacks on PBS, the US Senate, the CIA, and a slew of gaming sites popular with 4Chan users including EVE Online, M...
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