prompt injection

  1. Copilot Actions and Windows Agent Workspace: Security Risks and Defenses

    Microsoft’s rollout of an experimental feature called Copilot Actions and a new agent workspace transforms Windows from a passive host for applications into an operating system that can run autonomous AI agents — and Microsoft’s own warning that these agentic features introduce “novel security...
  2. Windows 11 AI Agents and XPIA: The New Infostealer Risk

    Microsoft’s recent push of agentic features into Windows 11 — including a visible Copilot-style agent on the taskbar and a lightweight “Agent Workspace” that can read files, UI elements, and operate apps — has created a new and notable infostealer attack surface that weaponizes trusted OS-level...
  3. Windows 11 Agentic Features: New Security Risks and Enterprise Controls

    Microsoft’s blunt admission that Windows 11’s new “agentic” features introduce novel security risks turns what was pitched as a productivity breakthrough into one of the most consequential security conversations for desktops in years. Background Microsoft is previewing a set of features that...
  4. Windows 11 Agentic AI: Copilot on the Taskbar and Autonomous Agents

    Microsoft’s push to make Windows 11 an “agentic” operating system took a visible step forward this week as Copilot and new AI agents were shown moving from background concept to taskbar-first features that users — and attackers — will watch closely. Background: the shift to an agentic Windows...
  5. Windows 11 Agentic AI: AI that Clicks Type and Scrolls with Security Warnings

    Microsoft’s new agentic AI features for Windows 11 — the capability that will let AI “click, type and scroll” on your behalf — arrive accompanied by unusually blunt, Microsoft-authored security caveats: agent accounts, isolated Agent Workspaces, admin-only toggles, and explicit warnings about...
  6. Agentic AI Browsers in 2025: Breakthroughs Meet Security Risks and Safeguards

    Agentic AI browsers — the biggest breakthrough of 2025 — have lurched from promise to peril in less than a year, as independent research led by Brave has exposed systemic vulnerabilities that can turn helpful assistants into covert exfiltration channels, opening new paths for credential theft...
  7. CVE-2025-62222: Command Injection in VS Code Copilot Chat Patch Now

    Microsoft and third‑party trackers have published a high‑severity advisory for CVE‑2025‑62222: a command‑injection (remote code execution) flaw in the Visual Studio Code Copilot Chat / agentic AI extension that can be triggered by attacker‑controlled prompt or repository content and, under...
  8. CVE-2025-62214: Visual Studio AI Prompt Injection Attack and Patch Guide

    Microsoft’s security bulletin for November 11, 2025 added a new entry to the growing list of developer-facing vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-62214, a command-injection / remote code execution flaw in Visual Studio that can be triggered by malicious prompt content interacting with Visual Studio’s AI...
  9. GitHub Agent HQ: Securing the Age of AI Agents in Enterprise

    GitHub’s new Agent HQ and a string of high‑profile AI slipups have pushed a single, urgent message to the front pages of enterprise security teams: the rapid agentification of developer and consumer workflows is exposing brand secrets in ways that traditional data‑protection tooling was not...
  10. Mermaid Exfiltration: Indirect Prompt Injection in Microsoft 365 Copilot

    A deceptively simple diagram turned into a conduit for data theft: security researcher Adam Logue disclosed an indirect prompt‑injection chain that coaxed Microsoft 365 Copilot to fetch private tenant data, hex‑encode it, and hide it inside a Mermaid diagram styled as a fake “Login” button — a...
  11. ChatGPT Atlas: The AI Browser, Promises, and Prompt Injection Risks

    OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Atlas browser is a bold reinvention of the browser as an agentic assistant — but its debut has reopened a high-stakes debate about prompt injection, covert exfiltration channels, and how much trust we should grant assistants that can read, remember and act on behalf of...
  12. CVE-2025-54132: Cursor Mermaid Diagram Exfiltration and Mitigations

    Cursor’s Mermaid-based diagram renderer in certain Cursor releases can be induced to fetch attacker-controlled images, creating a low‑noise exfiltration channel when combined with prompt injection — a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-54132 that has been fixed in Cursor 1.3 (with later...
  13. ASCII Smuggling Hits Gemini: AI Prompt Injection and Input Sanitization Debate

    Google’s decision not to patch a newly disclosed “ASCII smuggling” weakness in its Gemini AI has fast become a flashpoint in the debate over how to secure generative models that are tightly bound into everyday productivity tools. The vulnerability, disclosed by researcher Viktor Markopoulos of...
  14. Mitigating CVE-2025-59272 Copilot Spoofing in Enterprise

    Microsoft’s advisory listing for CVE-2025-59272 identifies a Copilot spoofing class flaw that affects Copilot-family services and related agentic tooling, but the public record remains intentionally terse and some technical details are not yet independently verifiable — treat the CVE as...
  15. Azure AI Foundry: Identity-First Agent Factory for Secure Enterprise AI

    Azure’s new Agent Factory blueprint reframes trust as the primary design constraint for enterprise agents and presents Azure AI Foundry as a layered, identity‑first platform that combines identity, guardrails, continuous evaluation, and enterprise governance to keep agentic AI safe, auditable...
  16. Windows 10 End of Support: AI Risk for Australian SMBs

    Australia’s small businesses face a sharp security cliff this month as Microsoft ends mainstream support for Windows 10, and researchers warn that a parallel surge in AI‑enabled attack techniques is widening the window of opportunity for criminals — a risk compounded by many organisations...
  17. Inline Real-Time Attack Prevention in Copilot Studio with Zenity

    Zenity’s expanded integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio embeds inline, real‑time attack prevention directly into Copilot Studio agents, promising step‑level policy enforcement, data‑exfiltration controls, and telemetry for enterprises that want to scale agentic AI without surrendering...
  18. Claude Memory for Teams: Enterprise Context, Admin Controls, Incognito Mode

    Anthropic has rolled out an optional Memory capability for Claude that is now available to Team and Enterprise plan customers, enabling the assistant to retain and recall project- and work-related context across sessions while giving admins and users controls to view, edit, and disable what the...
  19. CVE-2025-55319: Agentic AI in VS Code and the Path to RCE - Dev Guidance

    Title: CVE-2025-55319 — When Agentic AI Meets VS Code: How AI “agents” can open a path to remote code execution (and what developers must do now) Executive summary Microsoft’s Security Response Center lists CVE-2025-55319 as a vulnerability affecting agentic AI integrations and Visual Studio...
  20. Zenity & Microsoft Copilot Studio: Inline Runtime Security for Enterprise AI Agents

    Zenity’s expanded integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio promises to bring native, inline attack prevention into the execution path of enterprise AI agents, positioning runtime enforcement and step-level policy controls as the new baseline for safe agent deployment at scale. Background /...