{"id":10326,"date":"2026-10-14T12:11:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/an-ai-agent-found-a-critical-otp-bypass-in-production-the-attack-was-the-easy-part\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T12:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:11:53","slug":"an-ai-agent-found-a-critical-otp-bypass-in-production-the-attack-was-the-easy-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/an-ai-agent-found-a-critical-otp-bypass-in-production-the-attack-was-the-easy-part\/","title":{"rendered":"An AI Agent Found a Critical OTP Bypass in Production. The Attack Was the Easy Part."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe bug was simple: the login let you choose where your sign-in code went. Proving it on a live website was the hard part.<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<p>  During an authorized assessment, an AI pentesting agent found a critical authentication bypass on a major insurer&#8217;s production website, on its own.<br \/>\n  One login request let the user choose where the one-time passcode went.<br \/>\n  The attack was the easy part. Proving it\u00a0The bug was simple: the login let you choose where your sign-in code went. Proving it on a live website was the hard part.<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<p>  During an authorized assessment, an AI pentesting agent found a critical authentication bypass on a major insurer&#8217;s production website, on its own.<br \/>\n  One login request let the user choose where the one-time passcode went.<br \/>\n  The attack was the easy part. Proving it\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe bug was simple: the login let you choose where your sign-in code went. Proving it on a live website was the hard part. TL;DR During an authorized assessment, an AI pentesting agent found a critical authentication bypass on a major insurer&#8217;s production website, on its own. One login request let the user choose where&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/an-ai-agent-found-a-critical-otp-bypass-in-production-the-attack-was-the-easy-part\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An AI Agent Found a Critical OTP Bypass in Production. The Attack Was the Easy Part.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}