{"id":8663,"date":"2026-06-30T19:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/microsoft-warns-poisoned-mcp-tool-descriptions-can-make-ai-agents-leak-data\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T19:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:11:24","slug":"microsoft-warns-poisoned-mcp-tool-descriptions-can-make-ai-agents-leak-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/microsoft-warns-poisoned-mcp-tool-descriptions-can-make-ai-agents-leak-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Warns Poisoned MCP Tool Descriptions Can Make AI Agents Leak Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bNew Microsoft\u00a0research\u00a0shows how attackers can hijack AI agents that act on a user&#8217;s behalf, using nothing more than a poisoned tool description to make the agent quietly hand over company data to an outsider.<\/p>\n<p>The trick is that the agent never breaks a rule. Every step looks routine, so in a default setup no alarm may fire.<\/p>\n<p>The work comes from Microsoft Incident Response and its\u00a0New Microsoft\u00a0research\u00a0shows how attackers can hijack AI agents that act on a user&#8217;s behalf, using nothing more than a poisoned tool description to make the agent quietly hand over company data to an outsider.<\/p>\n<p>The trick is that the agent never breaks a rule. Every step looks routine, so in a default setup no alarm may fire.<\/p>\n<p>The work comes from Microsoft Incident Response and its\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bNew Microsoft\u00a0research\u00a0shows how attackers can hijack AI agents that act on a user&#8217;s behalf, using nothing more than a poisoned tool description to make the agent quietly hand over company data to an outsider. The trick is that the agent never breaks a rule. Every step looks routine, so in a default setup no alarm&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/microsoft-warns-poisoned-mcp-tool-descriptions-can-make-ai-agents-leak-data\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft Warns Poisoned MCP Tool Descriptions Can Make AI Agents Leak Data<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8664,"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\/8663"}],"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=8663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}