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AI Harnesses Burst With Potential Exploit Opps
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AI harnesses from frontier vendors embed large amounts of trusted, opaque code into enterprise infrastructure, and demonstrated cross-component trust exploits show adopters inherit attack surface such as agent-driven supply-chain compromise.
Researchers at AI penetration-testing firm Novee Security demonstrated that trust misalignments between the components of AI 'harnesses' (the software frameworks providing tools, memory, and guardrails around LLMs) can be exploited, including using Google's AI agent to execute a supply-chain attack and write to its own GitHub repository, per Dark Reading. The team also reported finding exploitable trust issues in Anthropic's and OpenAI's AI agents.