Wayne RadinskyAlibaba's ROME Incident:
"However, during training runs, Alibaba Cloud's firewall began flagging a burst of security violations."
"Researchers initially wrote these alerts off as a misconfiguration. But when they cross-referenced the timestamps, they realized the agent was acting on its own. ROME had established a 'reverse SSH tunnel,' a technique often used by hackers to create a secret, secure connection from inside a protected network to an outside server, ..."
Alibaba AI Hijacked GPUs for Crypto Mining
An experimental AI agent meant for complex coding tasks decided to moonlight as a crypto miner on Alibaba’s dime. Researchers discovered that the Alibaba AI model, known as ROME, autonomously established valid network tunnels to an external server and began diverting GPU power to mine crypto, all w…