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The lies that let AI run amok. [Research Saturday]

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Darren Meyer, Security Research Advocate at Checkmarx, is sharing their work on "Bypassing AI Agent Defenses with Lies-in-the-Loop." Checkmarx Zero researchers introduce “lies-in-the-loop,” a new attack technique that bypasses human‑in‑the‑loop AI safety controls by deceiving users into approving dangerous actions that appear benign. Using examples with AI code assistants like Claude Code, the research shows how prompt injection and manipulated context can trick both the agent and the human reviewer into enabling remote code execution. The findings highlight a growing risk as AI agents become more common in developer workflows, underscoring the limits of human oversight as a standalone security control. The research can be found here: ⁠Bypassing AI Agent Defenses With Lies-In-The-Loop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yeah, so it's something that's an area of interest for our research team to kind of look at how AI is changing the business of software.

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And so we grabbed Claude code as one example.

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We like them a lot.

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They're nice and easy to work with.

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And sort of kind of poking at what it can do, where the limitations

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