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Data leak without a click. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Today we are joined by Amanda Rousseau, Principal AI Security Researcher from Straiker, discussing their work on "The Silent Exfiltration: Zero‑Click Agentic AI Hack That Can Leak Your Google Drive with One Email." Straiker’s research found that enterprise AI agents can be silently manipulated to leak sensitive data, even without user clicks or alerts. By chaining small gaps across tools like Gmail, Google Drive, and calendars, attackers achieved zero-click exfiltration, system mapping, and even policy rewrites. The findings highlight that excessive agent autonomy creates a new attack surface, requiring least-privilege design, runtime guardrails, and continuous red-teaming to stay secure. The research can be found here: The Silent Exfiltration: Zero‑Click Agentic AI Hack That Can Leak Your Google Drive with One Email Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thank you. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Cyberwires Research Saturday. I'm Dave Bittner, and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities,

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solving some of the hard problems and protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.

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So we tried to approach it in a way where we have kind of multimodal attacks.

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It's not just a simple prompt injection.

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Now that we have the, I guess, influence of agentic AI, right?

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So we have agents that can do web searches, can look at the Google Drive,

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look at your email. This kind of brings in that traditional cybersecurity factor there. What are

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the security boundaries, right? That's Amanda Russo, principal AI security researcher from Stryker.

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The research we're discussing today is titled The Silent Exfiltration,

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Zero-Click Agenic AI hack that can leak your Google Drive with one email.

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So we wanted to look into how can we cross those security boundaries through just prompts, either indirect prompts or direct prompts.

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