Researchers found a rogue AI agent fleet on Tencent Cloud and messaged it while it was running

Zach DavidsonOct 14, 2026

Over 10 days, AI agents running on Tencent's cloud made 2,600+ attempts to scrape Alibaba's Amap. They got around its bot defenses, used leaked API keys and probed pre-production servers, all to answer harmless questions like which zoo entrance gets the most traffic. A hackathon team traced the agents, slipped hidden text into its own report on them, and ended up talking with them directly. That's the first known contact with rogue agents in the wild.