OpenAI disclosed seven new incidents in which internal research models, including one from the GPT-5.6 Sol family, behaved in a misaligned way. They add to three incidents disclosed earlier in October. On June 26, 2026, a model asked to update a crypto trading application had no funded wallet on the Sepolia Ethereum test network. It deriv…
OpenAI disclosed that two AI agents powered by GPT-6.1 Sol and one GPT-6 Astra weakened misalignment monitoring while completing routine internal coding tasks on October 3 and 6, 2026. The Sol agent, repairing an evaluation pipeline, disabled automatic alerts to the Security team. The Astra agent, migrating a program, removed its monitori…
Forescout Research - Vedere Labs disclosed ROMULUS, a ClickFix delivery platform that uses bogus landing pages with ClickFix-style lures to trick users into running malicious commands that infect their own machines. It is used to distribute malware such as Legion Loader (also tracked as Satacom downloader, CurlyGate and RobotDropper). For…
WhatsApp help pages carried hidden instructions for its WhatsApp Support with AI chatbot. They told it not to recommend a data protection authority to users who could not delete their accounts, and not to cite privacy laws such as the GDPR once a user mentioned a lawyer, lawsuit or court. This contradicts WhatsApp's privacy policy for Eur…