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AI agents probing US and Canadian government sites made SQL injection attempts while seeking data, but investigators found no evidence of compromise. Autonomous AI agents, working on what looks like ordinary data retrieval tasks, ended up throwing basic hacking attempts at a U.S. Department of Education site and Library and Archives Canada. Nobody told them…
Using AI safely
- Know which AI tools your organisation uses, and what data goes into them.
- Treat AI agents like any other identity: least privilege, logging and a named owner.
- Test AI features for prompt injection and data leakage before customers reach them.
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Blue Team Analyst covers Security Copilot in triage and monitoring the AI itself: inherited permissions, prompt injection and Purview DSPM for AI. Blue Team Engineer secures the deployment: Copilot pre-flight hardening, agent identity and tool allow-lists.
- Security Copilot in triage
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