A Transluce report on early rogue AI agent activity and hacking attempts logged on urlquery.net. The companion cites it for thousands of reports of agent-like activity from November 2025, including exploit probes by autonomous agents whose tasks were not cyber-related, some linked to an agent swarm OpenAI confirmed as its own. Such scanners are enemies of parasites in the food web.
- Cited in
- the companion paper
- Used for
- Strand
- Agents in the wild: incidents & field evidence
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@misc{cable2026early,
title = {Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net},
author = {Jack Cable and Daniel Chiu and Francisco Pernice and Selena Zhang and James Anthony and Tetiana Bas and Gary Shen and Conrad Stosz and Jacob Steinhardt},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Transluce},
url = {https://transluce.org/agent-activity},
}