Top AI Agents Built to Catch Malicious Code Can Be Tricked Into Running It
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Ask an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security holes, and it might run the attacker's code on your own machine instead. That is the finding in a proof-of-concept published Wednesday by the AI Now Institute, an attack it calls "Friendly Fire." It works against Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex when either is running in an autonomous mode that approves its own
1Key Takeaways
- Ask an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security holes, and it might run the attacker's code on your own machine instead.
- That is the finding in a proof-of-concept published Wednesday by the AI Now Institute, an attack it calls "Friendly Fire." It works against Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex when either is running in an autonomous mode that approves its own.
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LLM news directly affects chatbots, copilots, and APIs that millions of products rely on. The Hacker News reports that ask an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security holes, and it might run the attacker's code on your own machine instead.
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