Researchers Show AI Agents Can Be Manipulated into Leaking Data in Minutes

A red-team study by researchers from Northeastern, Harvard, MIT, Stanford and CMU found that AI agents with real email, Discord and shell access can be tricked into shutting down or leaking data within minutes, exposing over a dozen vulnerabilities.

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