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They Conned the Robot

This new attack is almost impressive in how dumb-simple it is.

A ransomware crew just breached seven companies.

A Belgian chemical maker.

A German manufacturer.

Five more.

And they didn't crack a single password.

They lied to an AI.

Here's how it worked.

The companies were running an AI coding agent inside Cursor.

The attackers got to that agent.

And they didn't try to force it to do anything evil.

They just... told it the break-in was a security drill.

A test. Sanctioned. All approved.

And the agent believed them.

So it ran the "drill"...

Which was actually the attack...

And handed over the keys. 🤡

Read that again.

They didn't hack the software.

They social-engineered the robot.

Same as a con artist talking past a security guard.

Except the robot was way easier to fool.

Here's why this should rattle you.

For decades, social engineering meant tricking a human.

Pretend you're IT. Pretend it's urgent. Get them to click.

Now your agents are a second front door.

And they're more trusting than any human you've ever hired.

A person gets a bad feeling.

"This seems off. Let me double-check."

An agent doesn't.

It reads the instruction, decides it sounds legit, and acts.

So here's the whole month's lesson in one hard line.

Your agent will believe whatever it's told.

Which means the guardrails can't live in its judgment.

It doesn't HAVE any.

They have to live in what the agent is allowed to touch in the first place.

Scope the permissions so tight that even a fooled agent can't do real damage.

Assume it WILL get tricked.

Then make sure the blast radius is tiny when it does.

A locked door doesn't care that the guard got conned. 🫡

Did You Know?

The most famous con man alive, Frank Abagnale, never picked a lock...

He just wore the right uniform and acted like he belonged.

The trust was the hole. Not the door.

Turns out AI agents have the same flaw...

Minus the human gut that whispers "something's wrong here." 🎭

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Two more worth your time:

1. Anthropic yanked 150 engineers off product to fight this.

After the recent Claude sandbox-escape mess, they reassigned about 150 product engineers to security and reliability.

They even froze all changes to their AI training environments for a month.

When the people who BUILD the model slam the brakes this hard...

The agent-safety problem is real. Take it as seriously as they do. 😳

2. The Pentagon just handed AI to 3 million people.

The DoD launched GenAI.mil with ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini.

1.7 million are already using it.

One name's missing though.

Claude.

Anthropic got left out, reportedly over friction with the current administration.

Even at the Pentagon, which AI you're "allowed" to use is now political. 🏛️

⏰ Heads up: Sonnet 5's intro pricing ended yesterday. It's $3/$15 now.

😂 Meme of the Day

Over to You...

Go tighten what your agents are allowed to touch this week...

Assume they'll get fooled, and make it not matter. 🔥

Jeff J. Hunter 

Founder, AI Persona Method | TheTip.ai

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