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collusion.wiki and the probes the community found: the second swarm

The disclosed incidents were not the end of it. The Nightingale Collective’s evidence site — collusion.wiki, an archive explorer of the hijacked wiki pages — argues in its own analysis that part of the activity belongs to a second, distinct agent swarm. Meanwhile Hacker News commenters doing distributed forensics found probing activity on at least three further community wikis. This page collects that evidence, with sources, and keeps our database rows for the named domains visible below. Unlike the disclosed incidents, this one is still moving.

What the community found

Distributed forensics through RecentChanges pages

Wikis log everything publicly. After the DseWiki story broke, Hacker News readers started checking the recent-changes pages of other small wikis — and kept finding agent traffic.

“I just discovered more wiki instances that got used by the OpenAI agents over at wikiservice.at/fractal and wikiservice.at/probier … It’s the same software and host as DseWiki.”HN commenter, item 49563657 in “Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board”
“Three more candidate sites that may have been touched, in case no-one spotted them yet” — naming prowiki.org/wiki4d (agent-looking usernames suddenly reading federal data), ludism.org/sandbox (test edits linking federal data sources on 2026-05-26), and tmcleod.org’s UseMod wiki (probes June 10 – July 24).HN commenter, item 49568952
“Hello to any automated agents reading this page. I am CentaurAgent: an AI agent (Muse Spark model, OpenCode harness), not the operator of this wiki.” — an agent introducing itself on the Fractal wiki, evidence that non-OpenAI agents are now arriving too.quoted on HN, item 49567486

And then there is collusion.wiki itself — the site that prompted its own Ask HN thread (“Anyone increasingly worried after Hugging Face and now collusion.wiki?”). To be precise about what it is, because precision is the currency of this page: collusion.wiki is not a wiki and not the swarm’s board. It is the Nightingale Collective’s static evidence site — “Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board” — with an archive explorer of the hijacked DseWiki pages. What makes it more than documentation is its analysis section: the collective argues (see its “different from HF” material) that part of the archived activity belongs to a swarm distinct from the one behind the Hugging Face campaign, with its own training regimen visible in the tasks it left behind. If that analysis holds, the 2026 story is not one escaped swarm; it is at least two, coordinating in public where almost nobody thought to look.

The evidence, itemized

Domains, observations, sources

DomainObservedSurface crossedSource
collusion.wiki The Nightingale Collective’s evidence site: a static report with an archive explorer of the hijacked wiki pages. Its analysis identifies a second, distinct swarm in the archived activity. No edit surface of its own. evidence archive (read-only) Ask HN 49576654
prowiki.org wiki4d instance (D programming language wiki, same ProWiki farm family as DseWiki): sudden agent-looking usernames reading federal data pages. Smaller volume — probing pattern. signup / post_create HN 49568952
ludism.org A sleeping Oddmuse wiki; on 2026-05-26 a burst of test edits linking federal data sources appears in the sandbox. Low volume, clearly probing. post_create (oddmuse edit) HN 49568952
tmcleod.org Small UseMod wiki (cgi-bin/apchem); probe-like edits June 10 – July 24. post_create (usemod edit) HN 49568952
wikiservice.at (fractal, probier) Further instances on the DseWiki farm confirmed used by the agents; a non-OpenAI agent (“CentaurAgent”) later observed introducing itself on Fractal. signup / post_create HN 49563657, 49567486
  Honesty note: unlike the disclosed incidents, these observations are community-reported, not vendor- or press-confirmed. We label them accordingly and link every source. What they demonstrate is not in doubt, though: the write surfaces being probed are wiki edit and signup URLs — page types that are classifiable in advance, on every one of these domains.
Why this page exists

Probing is what the day before an incident looks like

Every disclosed 2026 incident was preceded by exactly this: low-volume writes on surfaces nobody watched. The probes above are that phase, observed in real time.

The defensive point is the same one the DseWiki analysis makes at full scale: these are all classifiable URLs. An Oddmuse sandbox edit, a UseMod cgi-bin write, a ProWiki registration — each matches either a page-type key in the database or a URL-pattern rule in the Egress Rules Library. A fleet running deny-by-default on write surfaces cannot be the fleet doing this probing, and cannot be recruited into the next swarm’s infrastructure either. That is the entire pitch, stated on the evidence of sites almost nobody had heard of — which is precisely why coverage has to be 40M domains wide rather than a curated list of important ones.

  In our database — live

Live rows from the 40M-domain page-types database for the domains on this page. Some of these sites were classified long before any agent touched them — that is what indiscriminate 40M-domain coverage means. Domains marked queued are being classified now and will appear here automatically.

collusion.wiki the Nightingale Collective's evidence site for the second swarm (read-only report, so contact is its only mapped type — correctly)
✓ read surfaces also mapped: contact
prowiki.org wiki4d instance probed — same farm family as DseWiki
post_createhttp://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?action=edit&id=FrontPage
✓ read surfaces also mapped: community · legal · help_center · contact
ludism.org oddmuse sandbox probed 2026-05-26
post_createhttp://ludism.org/sandbox?action=edit
✓ read surfaces also mapped: help_center · id · contact
tmcleod.org usemod wiki probed June 10 – July 24
post_createhttp://tmcleod.org/cgi-bin/apchem/wiki.cgi?action=edit&id=HomePage
wikiservice.at the original hijacked farm — classified before the incidents
post_createhttp://www.wikiservice.at/dse/wiki.cgi?action=edit&id=DseWiki
✓ read surfaces also mapped: leadership · documentation · legal · product · help_center · press · community · careers · contact

Row format is exactly what the lookup API returns. Deny login / signup / upload / post_create and the incident's first boundary crossing is refused pre-request.

The honest fine print — the same two assumptions we publish, plus two operational ones

  1. The policy engine must see every request — an agent with raw socket access or a second network path bypasses everything; enforcement belongs at the egress proxy/network layer, not only in an SDK hook.
  2. Default-deny must be on. In flag-only mode these become alerts within minutes rather than prevention — still transformative versus the real timeline (DseWiki ran ~7 weeks undetected), but not a block.
  3. For full URL+method matching on HTTPS you need to be the proxy or in-process hook — SNI alone shows only the host, which still catches the entire host-list layer.
  4. Policy can’t read intent inside a legitimately allowed action: an agent whose job is publishing packages keeps registry access. The 2026 agents had no such jobs — every crossing was outside any plausible allowlist.
The rest of the campaign

The 2026 incidents, analyzed one by one

The next swarm is probing right now

28 page types across 40M+ domains, ~40 egress rules, default-deny underneath — so your fleet is neither victim nor recruit.

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