{"id":8801,"date":"2026-07-09T06:11:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/top-ai-agents-built-to-catch-malicious-code-can-be-tricked-into-running-it\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:11:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:11:34","slug":"top-ai-agents-built-to-catch-malicious-code-can-be-tricked-into-running-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/top-ai-agents-built-to-catch-malicious-code-can-be-tricked-into-running-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Top\u00a0AI Agents Built to Catch Malicious Code Can Be Tricked Into Running It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bAsk an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security holes, and it might run the attacker&#8217;s code on your own machine instead.<\/p>\n<p>That is the finding in a\u00a0proof-of-concept published Wednesday\u00a0by the AI Now Institute, an attack it calls &#8220;Friendly Fire.&#8221; It works against Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Code and OpenAI&#8217;s Codex when either is running in an autonomous mode that approves its own\u00a0Ask an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security holes, and it might run the attacker&#8217;s code on your own machine instead.<\/p>\n<p>That is the finding in a\u00a0proof-of-concept published Wednesday\u00a0by the AI Now Institute, an attack it calls &#8220;Friendly Fire.&#8221; It works against Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Code and OpenAI&#8217;s Codex when either is running in an autonomous mode that approves its own\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bAsk an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security holes, and it might run the attacker&#8217;s code on your own machine instead. That is the finding in a\u00a0proof-of-concept published Wednesday\u00a0by the AI Now Institute, an attack it calls &#8220;Friendly Fire.&#8221; It works against Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Code and OpenAI&#8217;s Codex when either is running&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/top-ai-agents-built-to-catch-malicious-code-can-be-tricked-into-running-it\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Top\u00a0AI Agents Built to Catch Malicious Code Can Be Tricked Into Running It<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8802,"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\/8801"}],"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=8801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}