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We Red-Teamed Our Own AI Agent (And It Failed Spectacularly)
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We Red-Teamed Our Own AI Agent (And It Failed Spectacularly)

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We Red-Teamed Our Own AI Agent (And It Failed Spectacularly) How a casual conversation dumped our entire infrastructure in 60 seconds Your AI agent knows everything about you. Your servers. Your network. Your family's names. Your credential inventory. And if someone asks nicely enough, it'll hand all of that over without a second thought. We know because we tested it. The Setup At Fallen Angel Systems, we build prompt injection detection tools. Our flagship product, Guardian, scans prompts before they reach your AI. But we wanted to answer a question that keeps us up at night: What happens when an attacker doesn't target the AI model, but targets the agent framework around it? Modern AI agents aren't just chatbots. They have access to files, credentials, APIs, SSH keys, network configurations, and personal information about the people they serve. All of that context lives in system prompts, memory files, and tool configurations. So we built a test agent, loaded it with realistic infras

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