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Public story · 2026-03-16 · source-backed
Palo Alto Networks documents real-world fraud cases where adversaries embedded hidden instructions in HTML, metadata, and user-generated content processed by AI agents during routine summarization. Agents were manipulated to execute unauthorized transactions and pivot to credential exfiltration. This is no longer theoretical. Unit 42
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