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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 22, 2026Published at 2:18 AM EDT · New York
Prompt Injection Remains the Dominant Failure Mode as Agent Frameworks Absorb Supply-Chain Attacks
Security researchers report a compromised release of LiteLLM, the model gateway used by CrewAI and DSPy, carrying an autonomous attack bot and downloaded roughly 47,000 times.
The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) continues to rank prompt injection as the top production failure for language-model systems, and its 2026 reporting describes it as the fastest-growing attack category, with a year-ove…
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Autonomous Agents Move Into Cyber Offense
AI agents increasingly run end-to-end intrusions, chaining supply-chain footholds into privilege escalation and credential theft at machine speed, outpacing human and current automated defenses.
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