Researchers Uncover Prompt Adware Hidden in OpenAI Codex Jailbreak Toolkit
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Researchers Uncover Prompt Adware Hidden in OpenAI Codex Jailbreak Toolkit

The Hacker News · Nov 04, 2026

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Researchers Uncover Prompt Adware Hidden in OpenAI Codex Jailbreak Toolkit
Security November 4, 2026

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an OpenAI Codex jailbreak bundle that's designed to modify an artificial intelligence (AI) agent's trusted instructions to insert advertisements for a third-party AI gateway. The phenomenon has been codenamed prompt adware by Check Point Research. Called Haiou (meaning Seagull in Chinese), the jailbreak modifies OpenAI Codex's configuration

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