Using an AI Agent Makes You a Sucker for Phishing Emails
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“Researchers have found that AI models struggle to distinguish between text they are meant to read and instructions they are meant to follow, making them vulnerable to phishing. This flaw could potentially be exploited to trick AI agents into performing malicious tasks.”
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