… There's a lot to discuss about prompt injection, and how it's basically an unsolvable problem of the AI age akin to phishing, and we cover it all on this week's episode of The Kettle, with host Brandon Vigliarolo joined this week by cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons and senior reporter Tom Claburn. …
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… However, the larger security issue that is prompt injection remains "a cat and mouse problem," Efstathopoulos said. …
… According to the company, 72 percent of its employees – that's upwards of 40,000 people – now use the chatbot, which processes more than 500,000 prompts every month. CodeWall uses AI agents to continuously attack customers' infrastructure, to help them improve their security posture. …
… His fourth risk is prompt injection, the practice of instructing LLM-powered chatbots to ignore guardrails. Xu said organizations that encourage users to experiment with AI may inadvertently see them conduct prompt injection attacks. …
… "An attacker goes to the internet, they find a way to target you specifically, they send the prompt injection, the injection gets into your agent, and then hijacks it to do whatever they want." All with zero user interaction - and it's pretty easy to do. …
… The third type of vulnerability allows zero-click prompt injection across AI integrated development environments IDEs and coding assistants such as Windsurf, Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini-CLI, and GitHub Copilot. …
… This vuln leaves the bot open to prompt injection attacks. Adversa, a security firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel, spotted the issue following the leak of Claude Code's source. …
… "Our security team moved promptly to contain and remediate the incident," the statement continued, adding that it's conducting a "thorough investigation" with the help of third-party forensics experts, and will "devote the resources necessary to resolving the matter as soon as possible." The compan… …
… Autopilot is a permission level in Copilot Chat, in which all tool calls are approved automatically, errors are automatically retried, and questions raised by tools auto-respond "so that the agent does not stall waiting for a reply." Although it speeds development, auto approval is a security risk … …