Microsoft identifies seven new ways AI agents can be hacked (opens in new tab)

Microsoft has identified seven new failure modes in agentic AI systems, in addition to those it identified last year in its first Taxonomy of Failure Modes in Agentic AI Systems. Four things contributed to the growing list of : the speed at which the technology went mainstream, the growing maturity of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem, the rise of computer-use agents, and finally the gathering of more empirical evidence as researchers obtained more real-life findings. The it has iden...