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'GhostJacking' Exposes Identity Governance Gaps in AI Agents

New research shows how attackers can use security alerts and blocked events to manipulate and hijack AI agents.

New research once again demonstrates the need for strong identity governance and operational guardrails around AI agents to protect against hijacking attacks that leverage their legitimate access and privileges against their very users.

At a DEF CON 34 session this week, Tenet Security demonstrated how attackers can poison content in trusted systems such as security alerts, logs, and error reports, tricking agents into actions ranging from executing code and stealing credentials to infrastructure takeover. More here

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