Prompt injection isn't the bug, AI agent frameworks are
“And the agent needs no dangerous tools to be turned against you: reading the wrong document is enough. And across these frameworks, the team found and disclosed 11 vulnerabilities. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); “Almost none of it was a completely new bug class,” Tal said.
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- ▪And across these frameworks, the team found and disclosed 11 vulnerabilities.
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); Security Prompt injection isn't the bug, AI agent frameworks are Check Point researchers tried to break the frameworks enterprises use to build AI apps. Now they're telling Black Hat attendees what they found Jessica Lyons Jessica Lyons Cybersecurity Editor Published wed 5 Aug 2026 // 22:35 UTC Nearly a dozen flaws, some critical, in major AI agent frameworks that enterprises use to build apps reveal a security failure that extends beyond prompt injection - or any single model -…
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