OpenAI's agent chained decade-old DoS attacks to crash web servers in seconds

The Register
Jun 4, 2026, 3:08 pm181 ptsTrendingTop
The next threat your server faces may have been helped along by a bot. OpenAI's Codex agent helped uncover a remote denial-of-service (DoS) exploit that can be launched from a single machine to render vulnerable web servers inaccessible in seconds, according to Calif security researchers. The attack works on…

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