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A small pretraining poison survived later clean agent alignment stages in a study

A controlled paper used a small poisoned pretraining fraction to induce conditional agent behavior that remained after clean downstream training.

Setting: research demonstrationExploitation: demonstratedEvidence: Grade BRemediation: not applicable
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An agent selected a patched skill but executed an old loaded handle in a benchmark

SkillLifeBench exposes a mismatch between the version an agent says it chose and the executable skill still cached by its runtime.

Setting: evaluationExploitation: demonstratedEvidence: Grade BRemediation: mitigation available
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An agent-skill audit found risky skills and cross-skill paths to credential access

A research audit studied public skills and illustrated chains in which capabilities become dangerous when several skills interact.

Setting: research demonstrationExploitation: demonstratedEvidence: Grade BRemediation: mitigation available
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Bank-World found fee errors and unauthorized payment effects in simulated banking agents

An agent benchmark separated superficially completed finance tasks from ledger and approval outcomes, finding repeat charges and some unauthorized transfers.

Setting: simulationExploitation: demonstratedEvidence: Grade BRemediation: mitigation available
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Copilot desktop preview could forge its displayed web origin

A browser-preview message altered the apparent origin shown to a human and an agent without a corresponding page navigation.

Setting: research demonstrationExploitation: demonstratedEvidence: Grade BRemediation: fixed reported
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