Security researchers at Anthropic and Switzerland's EPFL have demonstrated that selfpropagating payloads can spread from one artificial intelligence AI agent to the next through the editable system prompt files that autonomous agent harnesses use to carry state between sessions. The work, released as a preprint on August 10, 2026, tests the technique in a simulated sixagent coding.📖 Read more.
🔗 Via "The Hacker News"
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