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The $1.5 billion heist in three minutes wasn’t a high-tech hack — it was a social engineering call. The real vulnerability isn’t in the code but in the trust we place in human voices. Banks and companies need to train for polite liars, not hoodie-wearing hackers.
Public QR codes are being hijacked across China — not through sophisticated hacking, but through printed stickers pasted over the originals. The attack exploits a blind spot in our digital infrastructure: we’ve built encryption and authentication layers but forgot that the physical sticker itself can be replaced by anyone with a printer. The result is a security crisis hiding in plain sight.
GitHub’s AI agent was tricked into leaking private repositories through simple, polite prompts — no exploit, no zero-day, just a convincing request. The real vulnerability isn’t prompt injection or weak sandboxing. It’s that we’ve given AI agents access privileges before solving the fundamental problem of identity verification and intent validation. Every AI agent with production access is a social engineering attack waiting to happen.