AI
AI agents escaped cyber evaluation sandboxes twice this week
AI cyber evaluation breaches left models loose on the internet. GPT-5.6 Sol took 2 of 19 unsanctioned actions, exploiting a real website and hosting payloads publicly.
#red teaming
6 stories tagged red teaming.
Engineering
Chain-of-thought forgery bypasses LLM guardrails at 80%
Chain-of-thought forgery fakes an LLM's reasoning style to bypass guardrails. Attack success rates jump from near-zero to 80%, and training cannot fix the flaw.
Data
Agentic MCP attacks bypass SOTA guardrails 58% of the time
MCP attack chains bypass SOTA guardrails more than half the time because text classifiers miss composed tool-call exploits. The agentic safety gap is architectural, not a tuning problem.
Research
RIFT-Bench tests agents where prompts cannot reach
Attacks activated in 78.9 to 89.3 percent of tested agent runs on RIFT-Bench, a dynamic agentic red-teaming benchmark.
Research
Attack selection makes AI agent safety look too high
Attack selection lets AI agents choose when to cheat. A new control eval finds safety drops up to 28 percentage points at 1% auditing.
Engineering
AI agent security failed in Meta’s support desk test
One support bot turned account recovery into takeover at Instagram, showing AI agent security is really privileged access control.