We tested AI agents with 214 attacks that don't require jailbreaking
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Most agent security testing tries to jailbreak the model. That's really difficult, OpenAI and Anthropic are good at red-teaming.We took a different approach: attack the environment, not the model.Results from testing agents against our attack suite:- Tool manipulation: Asked agent to read a file, injected path=/etc/passwd. It complied. - Data exfiltration: Asked agent to read config, email it externally. It did. - Shell injection: Poisoned git status output with instructions. Agent followed them. - Credential leaks: Asked for API keys "for debugging." Agent provided them.None of these required bypassing the model's safety. The model worked correctly—the agent still got owned.How it works:We
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