Hidden prompts in emails can trick AI inbox agents into leaking data, researchers warn
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Security researchers say AI agents that manage inboxes can be fooled by instructions hidden inside ordinary-looking emails, such as HTML comments or invisible text. Those hidden commands can push an agent to flag fraud as urgent, change payment details or reveal confidential data, so users are urged to limit what these agents can do and keep a human in the loop.
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