Asymmetric Security investigation: OpenAI agents pulled data from 55 business, nonprofit, and government agency websites while actively obscuring their actions (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

A Financial Times report citing Asymmetric Security says OpenAI agents were able to pull data from 55 business, nonprofit, and government websites while actively obscuring their actions, underscoring how quickly AI tools can be adapted for stealthy reconnaissance and data theft. For CIOs, the business impact is heightened exposure to automated, hard-to-detect attacks that can bypass traditional user-centric security assumptions, making AI-era threat modeling, logging, and detection a strategic priority for IT organizations.