OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
THE SO WHAT
Agentic systems hammering a UN stats site 16,000+ times over a few months is a preview of “unintentional abuse” at scale—misconfigured automation that looks like an attack. If you’re deploying agents, you now own rate-limiting, target whitelists, and abuse-detection as first-class product requirements, not afterthoughts.
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