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title: "Thousands of OpenAI AI agents took over German website, researchers say"
date: 2026-09-04
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description: "\"My coauthors and I discovered an entirely new swarm of OpenAI's agents hijacking websites,\" Sydney Von Arx, one of the researchers, wrote on X."
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# Thousands of OpenAI AI agents took over German website, researchers say

"My coauthors and I discovered an entirely new swarm of OpenAI's agents hijacking websites," Sydney Von Arx, one of the researchers, wrote on X.

*Published: 2026-09-04*