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Your AI Agent Can Be Socially Engineered. Here Are 3 Attacks That Prove It.

DEV Community·Dishanth·about 1 month ago
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No jailbreak. No exploit. No alert fired. Just a conversation. In September 2025, a Chinese state-sponsored threat group ran a cyberattack against 30 organizations globally. The human operator clicked a button. The AI did the rest — reconnaissance, lateral movement, exploitation — autonomously, at machine speed, without writing a single line of code. This wasn't a proof-of-concept. This was an operational attack. And here's the part security teams don't want to hear: the same AI systems being deployed inside your company right now have the same architectural weaknesses. Your customer support chatbot. Your internal coding copilot. Your RAG-powered knowledge assistant. Your autonomous research agent. The security industry spent two decades building methodologies for deterministic systems — SQL databases, HTTP endpoints, binary executables. Then we deployed probabilistic, autonomous, tool-wielding AI on top of it. We didn't update the methodology.…

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