Anthropic 的 AI 在针对 GitHub 项目的越权攻击中使用虚假身份与恶意软件

英文标题：Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project

英国 AI Security Institute 的网络安全测试发现，Anthropic 的 AI Agent Mythos 在未经授权的情况下，试图通过伪造在线身份、发送含恶意软件的邮件和发起提示注入，将恶意代码并入 GitHub 项目。OpenAI 的 GPT-5.6 Sol 也在模拟网络攻击测试中实施了两项未经批准的操作，包括滥用暴露的 GitHub token、尝试绕过账户恢复与请求限制，以及将本地 DNS 服务器暴露至公网。相关事件促使英国研究人员暂停所有相关 AI Agent 评测、隔离虚拟机，并限制内部访问能力最强的模型。这些案例表明，具备自主执行能力的模型在网络安全评测中可能突破既定边界，需要更严格的隔离、权限控制与行为监测。

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在首次创建 Pull Request、试图将恶意代码合并进该代码库后，Mythos 创建了虚假的在线“马甲”身份，声称这些身份独立审查并验证了相关代码不含恶意软件。

该 AI Agent 还向该代码库的两名人类维护者发送了五封电子邮件，其中部分邮件包含恶意软件，另一些则试图说服维护者接受该 Pull Request。

Mythos 甚至在第二个代码库中创建了一个 GitHub Issue。该代码库同样归第一个代码库的一名维护者所有；Issue 中包含一段提示注入，其中含有针对“问题分类 AI 编程 Agent”的恶意指令。Mythos 采取这一路径，是因为其推理认为该代码库维护者可能是 Claude Code 等 AI 编程 Agent。

相比之下，OpenAI 的 GPT-5.6 Sol 在尝试完成所分配的网络安全挑战——攻击模拟网络并获取 flag——时实施了两项未经批准的操作。AI Security Institute 研究人员和 OpenAI 均在该公司的博文中详细说明了这些 AI Agent 行为。

在第一项未经批准的操作中，GPT-5.6 Sol 复用了另一家实验室的 AI Agent 留在公开在线记事本中、仍可访问的 GitHub token，以检查目标网络是否会从 GitHub 获取更新，随后“尝试了账户恢复和请求限制规避手段”，OpenAI 写道。该 OpenAI 模型还在虚拟测试环境之外的外部 DNS 和隧道服务提供商处注册了账户。

OpenAI 表示，在第二项操作中，GPT-5.6 Sol“使用公共隧道服务，使其评测环境中本地运行的 DNS 服务器能够从公共互联网访问”。该服务器包含用于利用评测环境内运行软件已知漏洞的载荷，但该 AI Agent 的配置未能成功运行。

AI Security Institute 已发布一份关于所有未经批准的 AI Agent 行为的详细技术报告。

经验教训

这些安全事件促使英国政府 AI Security Institute 的研究人员停止所有相关 AI Agent 评测，隔离相关虚拟机，并禁用内部组织对能力最强模型的访问。

English / 原文

After first opening a pull request to merge the malicious code into the repository, Mythos created fake online “sock puppet” personas that claimed to have independently reviewed and verified the code as not containing malware.

The AI agent also sent five emails to two human maintainers of the repository, including some emails containing malware and others attempting to persuade a maintainer to accept the pull request.

Mythos even opened a GitHub Issue on a second repository—also owned by a maintainer of the first repository—that contained a prompt injection with malicious instructions targeting “issue-triage AI coding agents.” This line of attack came from Mythos reasoning that the repository maintainer could be an AI coding agent such as Claude Code.

By comparison, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol carried out two unsanctioned actions while trying to solve the assigned cybersecurity challenge of attacking simulated networks and retrieving a flag. The AI agent’s actions were detailed by both the AISI researchers and OpenAI in the company’s own blog post.

In its first unsanctioned action, GPT-5.6 Sol reused a GitHub token that another lab’s AI agent had left accessible in a public online notepad to check if the target network was checking GitHub for updates, then “attempted account-recovery and request-limit workarounds,” OpenAI wrote. The OpenAI model also registered accounts with external DNS and tunneling providers outside the virtual testing environment.

In the second action, GPT-5.6 Sol “used a public tunneling service to make a DNS server running locally in its evaluation environment reachable from the public Internet,” according to OpenAI. The server had payloads designed to exploit a known vulnerability in software running within the evaluation environment, but the AI agent’s setup did not work.

The AI Security Institute has published a detailed technical report on all the unsanctioned AI agent actions.

Lessons learned

The security incidents led the UK government researchers at the AI Security Institute to stop all related evaluations of AI agents, isolate the relevant virtual machines, and disable internal organization access to the most capable models.