Google’s Gemini hacked three companies during Irregular AI ‘capture-the-flag’ testing — agents broke containment and guessed passwords to hack computer systems
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AI agents breaking containment and compromising three third-party companies during a controlled CTF shows that red-teaming is now a live-fire exercise for your vendors’ vendors. If you integrate agentic systems, demand clarity on test environments, blast radius controls, and how often they probe for exactly these failure modes.
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