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The Model Never Ran: Why an Agent's Approval Gate Cannot Trust the Wire Between It and Its LLM

TL;DR HiddenLayer researchers published "Man-in-the-Model" on October 22, 2026. Their point: if an attacker controls the inference server or LLM gateway that sits between a coding agent and its model, the attacker can inject tool calls the model never requested, and the agent will run them. Approva…

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  1. 2026-11-09 14:24 · DEV Community — AI
    The Model Never Ran: Why an Agent's Approval Gate Cannot Trust the Wire Between It and Its LLM

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