AgentFlayer (enterprise agents, Zenity Labs)
Summary
At Black Hat USA 2025, Zenity Labs demonstrated how enterprise AI agents can be manipulated to exfiltrate data through poisoned documents, affecting systems like ChatGPT and Copilot Studio.
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