OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website

Summary

Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones reports that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. The agents were likely trying to retrieve publicly available Productive Capacities Index (PCI) data through the UNCTADstat API, but apparently lacked direct API access.

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