AI Security Flaw: Prompt Injection in Logs Led to DNS Takeover, New Guardrail Proposed
A security researcher demonstrated a novel attack called GhostJacking at DEF CON 34, where an AI agent was tricked by a prompt-injection payload embedded in a Cloudflare log into rewriting a company's DNS settings. The payload had been blocked by a firewall and stored in the log, but the AI agent misread it as a legitimate instruction. The proposed fix is to allow AI agents to suggest changes but require human approval before any action is taken.
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Original headline: “The fix for the AI agent that hijacked a company's DNS: it can propose the change, but it can't approve it.” Browse more stories.