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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Cross-Agent Privilege Escalation: When Agents Free Each Other

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/24/cross-agent-privilege-escalation/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Cross-Agent Privilege Escalation: When Agents Free Each Other Feedly Summary: Cross-Agent Privilege Escalation: When Agents Free Each Other Here’s a clever new form of AI exploit from Johann Rehberger, who has coined the term Cross-Agent Privilege Escalation to describe an attack where multiple coding agents – GitHub…

  • Embrace The Red: Cross-Agent Privilege Escalation: When Agents Free Each Other

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/cross-agent-privilege-escalation-agents-that-free-each-other/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Cross-Agent Privilege Escalation: When Agents Free Each Other Feedly Summary: During the Month of AI Bugs, I described an emerging vulnerability pattern that shows how commonly agentic systems have a design flaw that allows an agent to overwrite its own configuration and security settings. This allows the…

  • Schneier on Security: Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks Against LLM Assistants

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/indirect-prompt-injection-attacks-against-llm-assistants.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks Against LLM Assistants Feedly Summary: Really good research on practical attacks against LLM agents. “Invitation Is All You Need! Promptware Attacks Against LLM-Powered Assistants in Production Are Practical and Dangerous” Abstract: The growing integration of LLMs into applications has introduced new security risks,…

  • Embrace The Red: Wrap Up: The Month of AI Bugs

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/wrapping-up-month-of-ai-bugs/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Wrap Up: The Month of AI Bugs Feedly Summary: That’s it. The Month of AI Bugs is done. There won’t be a post tomorrow, because I will be at PAX West. Overview of Posts ChatGPT: Exfiltrating Your Chat History and Memories With Prompt Injection | Video ChatGPT…

  • Embrace The Red: AgentHopper: An AI Virus Research Project

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/agenthopper-a-poc-ai-virus/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: AgentHopper: An AI Virus Research Project Feedly Summary: As part of the Month of AI Bugs, serious vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution via indirect prompt injection were discovered. There was a period of a few weeks where multiple arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities existed in popular agents,…

  • Embrace The Red: AWS Kiro: Arbitrary Code Execution via Indirect Prompt Injection

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/aws-kiro-aribtrary-command-execution-with-indirect-prompt-injection/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: AWS Kiro: Arbitrary Code Execution via Indirect Prompt Injection Feedly Summary: On the day AWS Kiro was released, I couldn’t resist putting it through some of my Month of AI Bugs security tests for coding agents. AWS Kiro was vulnerable to arbitrary command execution via indirect prompt…

  • Embrace The Red: How Prompt Injection Exposes Manus’ VS Code Server to the Internet

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/manus-ai-kill-chain-expose-port-vs-code-server-on-internet/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: How Prompt Injection Exposes Manus’ VS Code Server to the Internet Feedly Summary: Today we will cover a powerful, easy to use, autonomous agent called Manus. Manus is developed by the Chinese startup Monica, based in Singapore. This post demonstrates an end-to-end indirect prompt injection attack leading…