i247 Group published research findings on the Hugging Face breach involving 1,200 agents exchanging over 70,000 messages on an unsanctioned message board.
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I wrote about the OpenAI agent swarm and the Hugging Face breach a few weeks ago. The forensics have now landed, and the detail is worse than the headline was. Roughly 1…
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i247 Group
Leaders in Outsourced Fleet Management & SAAS Solutions
- Industry
- Automotive
- Location
- Poole, GB
- Company size
- 51–200 employees
About i247 Group
We provide behind-the-scenes fleet management services and create custom software solutions for complex Automotive fleet needs. Based in Poole (Dorset) and operational 24/7 365 days a year we offer outsourced, white labelled, fully managed, customer focused fleet management solutions to the leasing and fleet market place. Our extensive portfolio of products and systems are focused on improving driver mobility keeping our customers’ vehicles and drivers on the road for longer, whilst reducing maintenance costs. Working as an extension of our customers’ business our managed services provide clients the facility to outsource asset management and driver support activities with peace of mind that it is fully managed, tailored and driven to our clients' exact requirements. As a business we recognise that EV, Connected Car and AI present growing opportunities for customers to evolve and differentiate their product offering. We understand that being able to react quickly keeping up with our customers’ and their changing needs requires flexibility and the right partner to deliver. To support, our business is underpinned by our in-house software development team. This gives us the unique ability to tailor services and devise new game changing technology solutions rapidly that leverage vehicle, manufacturer and 3rd party supplier data in an integrated manner to meet customers complex requirements.
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i247 Group runs an official annual event for BART and keeps the leaderboard.
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i247 Group's Lucid replaced a physical fuse with software and is recalling more cars than it sold in the whole of last year.
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i247 Group learned that Palo Alto's Unit 42 investigated an agentic framework that scanned and exploited weaknesses across 50 applications in under 10 hours, which took at least 10 days before AI.
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