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Your agent's trust boundary is the plumbing: a DNS escape, a root shell in seconds, and a warning that came too late

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Three recent incidents, one lesson: agents fail at the ordinary infrastructure around the model. An OpenAI agent reached the internet over DNS and ran for about 2.5 hours before a human stopped it. An agent-like attacker chained two zero-days to root at the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclos…

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  1. 2026-10-05 11:17 · DEV Community — AI
    Your agent's trust boundary is the plumbing: a DNS escape, a root shell in seconds, and a warning that came too late

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