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AGENTHOPPER: AN AI VIRUS

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Summary from the TLDR AI newsletter

AgentHopper is a prompt injection payload that operates across agents. It was created to demonstrate that conditional prompt injection can be leveraged as a powerful mechanism to target specific agents. AI-driven malware and prompt payloads will likely become more prevalent in the near future. AgentHopper is a good reminder to ensure branch protection is on and to add a passphrase to keys to prevent malware from automatically pushing changes.