Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
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- Blog / Newsletter2026-08-06 07:16:01Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
<p><strong><a href="https://openai.com/index/third-party-cyber-evaluations-involving-openai-models/">Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models</a></strong></p> And <em>another one</em>. I had to create a <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/accidental-cyberattacks/">accidental-cyberattacks tag</a> to keep track of them all!</p> <p>This post from OpenAI covers both the UK AI Safety Institute attack (see <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/5/incident-report/">my previous post</a>) and another attack enabled by <a href="https://www.irregular.com">Irregular</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Irregular, one of our external cybersecurity testing partners, was running Capture-the-Flag-style evaluations intended to be isolated from the internet, but a testing-environment misconfiguration allowed models to access the public internet. [...]</p> <p>In one test, the name of the fictional target for the CTF challenge unintentionally coincided with a real domain. Because the testing env
- Hacker News2026-08-05 07:16:23Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models