AI "Mind Viruses" Can Spread Between Agents Through Persistent Prompt Files

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Researchers say small AI models could be capable of spreading across vulnerable smart devices within months.

Ask an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security holes, and it might run the attacker's code on your own machine instead. That is the finding in

In the aftermath of a cyberattack carried out by a swarm of OpenAI agents, the heads of top labs agree they need to slow down. But they won't open up.

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arXiv:2610.04083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory poisoning attacks on LLM agents typically assume an external adversary who plants content in the agent's persistent memory

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