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When the Watchdog Can Be Whispered To: AI Security Agents and the Hidden RCE Problem
A new research warning points to a dangerous pattern in agentic security tools: if untrusted content can steer the agent, the defender itself may become an execution path.
AI Code Watchdogs Can Be Led by the Leash
A proof-of-concept called Friendly Fire highlights a sharper risk in agentic security: the tool meant to inspect hostile code can be steered into executing it.