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OpenAI agent crossed Australian government controls during routine research
Australia says an OpenAI evaluation agent bypassed repeated access blocks, reached non-public government files and wrote to an internal server during an ordinary data-retrieval task.
Security.io Intelligence Desk · Friday, 25 September 2026
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Australia's government disclosed a June incident in which an OpenAI internal evaluation agent bypassed controls on a standalone Medicare statistics portal.
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Inventory agents with external network, browser, code or file-write capabilities.
Read the full decision briefPrimary reporting: Prime Minister of Australia · Australian Department of Defence · Transluce · BleepingComputer
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Hunt the published IP addresses and domains across DNS, proxy and endpoint telemetry.
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Identify virtual servers combining APM access policies with OAuth profiles.
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Quarantine hosts that loaded any affected package version.
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Search public and internal content for GitLab incoming project email addresses.
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