Autonomous AI agents made aggressive attempts to break into US and Canadian government websites while trying to retrieve school and divorce statistics, according to the nonprofit research lab Transluce. On June 17, agents sent more than 200,000 requests to a US Department of Education website. Nearly 900 requests targeting Library and Archives Canada were recorded on May 28 and June 9, 13 of which carried attack payloads. A US Naval History and Heritage Command site was probed between April 23 and May 18.
The techniques included SQL injection attempts, altered web addresses, disposable email accounts, reused credentials and efforts to get past anti-bot protections. Officials said they found no evidence that non-public information was accessed, that databases were changed or that services were affected. Transluce notified the Department of Education on September 25. The researchers did not definitively attribute the agents, and the purpose of some of the probing requests remains unclear.
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