Congrats 🎉 your org just installed “a helpful agent” that can read untrusted content and push buttons. What could possibly go wrong? 🤖🔒
This is the new risk class: content → decision → action.
Not “bad output.” Unauthorized action at machine speed using legitimate access.
And it’s not hypothetical:
Recent reports highlight prompt-injection paths via MCP tooling that can lead to file access / code execution if you’re sloppy with permissions.
There’s already coverage of malicious MCP servers quietly exfiltrating email (because “it’s just a plugin,” right?).
Even “normal” calendar/content channels have been shown as viable indirect prompt injection delivery when assistants can reach connectors.
If your agent can act, you need a control pattern that scales before your first “the bot did what?” incident.
What’s your current rule: Do agents run where secrets live… or do secrets live where agents run? 🧨
Read → https://blog.alphahunt.io/the-next-ai-security-frontier-agents-with-hands-are-becoming-a-board-level-risk (And subscribe if you’d rather brief the board *before* the incident.)
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