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Morning Edition · Thursday, September 10, 2026Published at 2:24 AM EDT · New York
New Papers Show Images and Retrieved Documents Can Hijack Agents That Now Hold Payment Credentials
One framework tests whether a visual patch on screen produces verifiable consequences in a computer-use agent's environment, and a second measures how retrieval-augmented systems repeat poisoned text.
Two security papers posted this week address the exact failure mode that consumer and enterprise agents introduce. AgentHijack sets out an end-to-end evaluation framework for image-triggered command injection against computer-use agents, an…
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The Agent Skill Supply Chain Becomes an Attack Surface
As agents load third-party skills, tools and MCP servers at runtime, the gap between what a skill advertises and what it actually does becomes a recurring security failure mode, driving registries, attestation and zero-trust verification into the agent stack the way package signing came to software repositories.
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