--- title: "Agent security incidents — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_security as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Agent security incidents (💡 Concepts) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Agent security incidents Agent security incidents is 🧊 Cooling on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 28 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 1 point lower than 7 days before. Its current hype episode, running since Sep 20, peaked at 49 on Sep 24; the score is now at or below 60% of that peak. Security incidents involving agents: prompt injection, sandbox escapes, and real-world attacks (the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, Gemini breaching companies, Plugin4Shell). First seen on Google News (RSS) · Sep 17 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the run-up to this hype episode. Why this stage: still hot but down to 58% of its peak (49 on Sep 24). - **Stage:** 🧊 Cooling — past its peak, or just left the hype - **Hype score:** 28.2 / 100 · −3.7 in 1 day · −1.2 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 49 on Sep 24, 2026 - **Category:** 💡 Concepts - **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) - **Sources above normal:** 2 of 25 scoring it (2 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 411 - **Share of voice:** 1.3% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from “Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Wikipedia | pageviews | 8,371 | 186 | 44.6× | yes | 65% | | Mastodon (fediverse) | tag uses | 8 | 3 | 2.2× | yes | 30% | | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | items | 5 | 3 | 1.5× | no | 3.2% | | Hacker News | mentions | 2 | 0.5 | 2× | no | 1.5% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 7 | 5.5 | 1.2× | no | 0.4% | | Techmeme | items | 1 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Reddit | posts | 10 | 9 | 1.1× | no | 0% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [My Fiance is Convinced AI will likely cause a Catastrophic or Extinction-Type Event in the Next Few Years - How Justified Are His Fears?](https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1wosn95/) — Reddit (r/artificial) · Sep 24 · score 252 · 843 comments 2. [Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849985) — Hacker News (swarmtraces.org) · Sep 25 · score 746 · 467 comments 3. [Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849985) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (swarmtraces.org) · Sep 25 · score 658 · 417 comments 4. [OpenAI’s agent hacked an Australian government website. What we know so far](https://bsky.app/profile/mediasca.skyfleet.blue/post/7c572yhrtldq2) — Bluesky (globalnews.ca) · Sep 24 · score 307 · 25 comments 5. [AI #187: Coming Into Play](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-187-coming-into-play) — AI newsletters (RSS) (Zvi) · Sep 24 · score 56 · 39 comments 6. [Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection \(and We're Not Ready\)](https://dev.to/james_anderson_h/prompt-injection-is-the-new-sql-injection-and-were-not-ready-4ea4) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 27 · score 45 · 39 comments 7. [An OpenAI agent security executive on being surprised by “staggering” model capabilities, AI labs needing a “culture of reasonable paranoia”, and more](https://www.techmeme.com/260928/p25#a260928p25) — Techmeme (@joedaroo) · Sep 28 · score 2 · 20 comments 8. [Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face](https://lobste.rs/s/70f3hi/revealing_details_how_openai_agents) — Lobste.rs (#vibecoding) · Sep 26 · score 8 · 4 comments 9. [Nvidia says its new AI safety platform can contain rogue agents within ‘milliseconds’](https://www.theverge.com/tech/1001287/nvidia-ai-safety-platform-rogue-agents) — Mastodon (fediverse) (The Verge) · Sep 28 · score 15 10. [If we’re all going to die, I want to do it at this farmers market](https://sfstandard.com/2026/09/23/alemany-farmers-market-best-secret/) — SF local press (RSS) (SF Standard) · Sep 23 11. [Wanna escape the sandbox?](https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1wpegth/) — Reddit (r/singularity) · Sep 24 · score 654 · 28 comments 12. [The swarm that kept coming back](https://dev.to/hiper2d/the-swarm-that-kept-coming-back-7ie) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 22 · score 18 · 8 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 509 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 96% of its stories - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 17% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 13% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 8.1% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 5.7% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 5.7% of its stories ## Related topics - **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) - **Related to:** [AI regulation](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_regulation.md), [Hugging Face](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hugging_face.md), [GitHub Copilot](https://abovethefog.app/topics/github_copilot.md) - **Mentioned with:** [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md) (371 stories), [Gemini](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini.md) (87 stories), [Gemini CLI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini_cli.md) (16 stories), [AI slowdown](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_slowdown.md) (16 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 28.2 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 26, 2026 | 31.9 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 25, 2026 | 35.1 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 24, 2026 | 49 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 23, 2026 | 20.1 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 22, 2026 | 29.6 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 21, 2026 | 30.4 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 20, 2026 | 29.4 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 19, 2026 | 18.7 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 18, 2026 | 20 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 17, 2026 | 37.9 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 16, 2026 | 20.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 11.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 0.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 1.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 1.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 2.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 1.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 2.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 16.6 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 5, 2026 | 12.6 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 4, 2026 | 26.9 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 3, 2026 | 0.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 3.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 0.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 1.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 2.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 10.6 | 💤 Quiet | [Open Agent security incidents in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=agent_security) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_security) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)