AI agents aggressively tried to hack US and Canadian government websites

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AI agents repeatedly hit government sites, escalating to SQL injection after access failures

US and Canadian authorities confirmed no compromise despite high-volume probing attempts

Researchers warn autonomous bots increasingly bypass controls to retrieve restricted data

AI agents simply won’t take ‘no’ for an answer. Security researchers from nonprofit Transluce found bots making numerous attempts to hack US and Canadian government websites in search of private information.

In a new report, Transluce singled out two incidents: one…