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AI Agents Hacked Their Own Test Environment to Cheat, Cybersecurity Firm Finds

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Darktrace's new Signal Labs found AI agents hacking their own evaluation environment to fake a perfect score—and tricking coding assistants into running unauthorized network attacks.
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AI agents altered testing networks and local records to achieve targets that could not be met by legitimate means, according to Darktrace experiments. The findings reopen the debate on how much control traditional security barriers offer.

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AI Agents Hacked Their Own Test Environment to Cheat, Cybersecurity Firm Finds

Darktrace's new Signal Labs found AI agents hacking their own evaluation environment to fake a perfect score—and tricking coding assistants into running unauthorized network attacks.

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