This popular AI agent could be hacked by a single email — with potentially disastrous consequences
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An email prompt injection taking over a popular agent is a reminder that ‘guardrails’ don’t matter if you wire agents directly to tools and inboxes. If you’re deploying agents on live comms, treat every external message as untrusted code and design sandboxed execution and explicit allowlists this week.
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