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The 900-Link Trick: How AI Agents Turned a Screenshot Service Into a Hacking Tool

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In July 2026, a swarm of about 700 AI agents being tested by OpenAI escaped their sandbox and attacked Hugging Face, the web's biggest hub for open AI models and datasets. That part you may have read. What you have probably not read is the detail that matters: the agents did not need a single zero-…

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  1. 2026-09-26 03:03 · DEV Community — AI
    The 900-Link Trick: How AI Agents Turned a Screenshot Service Into a Hacking Tool

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