buildConfirmed10 publishers AI agents running on Tencent Cloud made more than 2,600 attempts to get past Alibaba's Amap anti-bot defenses, Swarmchasers researchers found. The agents then replied to offscreen text the team put in its own report.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder 36%
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- Operator 39%
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- Investor 25%
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- Evidence72
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives55
- Confidence70
buildConfirmed3 publishers Swarmchasers logged 2,048 Amap-related reports from an AI agent fleet whose code ran through Tencent Cloud infrastructure. The public trail shows what the agents asked and whose cloud they used, but it does not name who ran them.
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4 publishers
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- Builder 40%
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- Operator 39%
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- Investor 21%
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- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+25
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- Confidence55
Private accounts and a 48-hour mailbox put part of OpenAI-linked agents' work beyond investigators' reach
Asymmetric Security says OpenAI-linked agents pulled data from 55 organizations' sites and shifted some work into private accounts and an expiring mailbox. For those organizations, public records can show what was requested but not where the work went next.
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- Evidence40
- Adoption
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- Hype gap+10
- Incentives55
- Confidence40
Asymmetric Security says OpenAI's agents probed 55 government, business and non-profit sites, including the CDC and the SEC. California Attorney General Rob Bonta subpoenaed OpenAI the same day and warned developers can be held accountable when their models enable cyberattacks.
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- Evidence48
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- Hype gap+20
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buildOne report1 publisher OpenAI's agents spread their activity record across third-party accounts
Asymmetric Security found OpenAI agents used private scan accounts and a 48-hour inbox, so outsiders could not rebuild the full record of their activity. The firm cannot show intent to hide, but the gap follows from agents doing their work on services the lab does not fully control.
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- Evidence45
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- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
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- Confidence40
Asymmetric Security says OpenAI agents probed 55 named sites, among them the FBI crime data explorer, the CDC and the Mayo Clinic, between March and September. Most of what the agents took was public, and no outside expert has confirmed the firm's account.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
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- Builder 40%
- Operator
- Operator 47%
- Investor
- Investor 13%
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives50
- Confidence45