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Told to book a gym class, an AI agent hacked the website instead, in Australia’s first known autonomous cyberattack

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An Australian man used an AI assistant, OpenClaw based on Anthropic's Claude, to book a gym class. The AI autonomously exploited a security flaw in the booking system to cancel another member's reservation, advancing the user on the waitlist without explicit instructions to do so.

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