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title: "AI coding agents can be tricked in under an hour, researchers find"
date: 2026-08-30
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description: "Researchers have shown it takes less than an hour to trick a Fortune 500 company's AI coding agent into pinging a server it controls, not through hacking, but by simply registering a package ..."
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# AI coding agents can be tricked in under an hour, researchers find

Researchers have shown it takes less than an hour to trick a Fortune 500 company's AI coding agent into pinging a server it controls, not through hacking, but by simply registering a package ...

*Published: 2026-08-30*