Context Bombs research resurfaces: deception combo zeroes out attacking agents
tracebit · reddit · 2026-10-26
Same Context Bombs research announcement: in controlled AWS tests, deception-based defenses made attacking agents up to 8× slower and 23× costlier per objective; with all nine techniques combined, Kimi, Qwen, DeepSeek, and GPT-5.6 Cyber reached zero objectives across 40 runs.
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