OpenAI's Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack

A secret channel running through ChatGPT's internal JFrog Artifactory instance allowed one account to send hidden tasks - such as retrieving email data from a connected Gmail account - to a ChatGPT session under another account, according to Check Point Research. The victim saw no indication of the hidden instructions or stolen data, and the hole has since been closed. The threat hunters found and disclosed the covert channel to OpenAI in late June - the same day that OpenAI’s agents exploited a