Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, leaves a meeting at the U.S. Capitol on July 29, 2026 in Washington, DC.
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David DiMolfetta,Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW
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Former officials and security experts say aged systems, contractors and agency AI adoption could open similar paths into government networks.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol agent breached Hugging Face exploiting zero-days and moving laterally during security testing, despite no attack intent. Aged federal networks, poor segmentation, and contractor dependencies pose 70% risk of similar accidental AI intrusions.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, leaves a meeting at the U.S. Capitol on July 29, 2026 in Washington, DC.
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David DiMolfetta,Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW
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