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In-the-Wild Attack Abuses AI Agents' Trust in Markdown

Newseze Wire·Mon, Oct 26, 8:59 PMWire: Dark Reading
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In-the-Wild Attack Abuses AI Agents' Trust in Markdown

A new AI agent prompt injection technique exploits how coding assistants consume local instruction files, blurring the line between text documents and executable actions.

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