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AI Agent "Mind Viruses" Can Self-Propagate via Writable Prompt Files
- Engineer — Learn: Novel attack class showing that writable system-prompt state files in multi-agent harnesses can carry self-propagating payloads between agents; no exploitation in the wild yet, but engineers building agentic pipelines should treat those files as untrusted input surfaces and avoid giving agents write access to other agents’ system prompts.
- SOC/IR — Learn: Pure research with no IOCs, no ATT&CK mapping, and no detected campaigns; no hunt or detection to write today, but worth tracking as agentic AI deployments grow and this technique matures toward real-world use.
- Leader — Plan: If the organization is deploying or evaluating multi-agent AI systems, this peer-reviewed research identifies a systemic risk class that warrants a policy guardrail — specifically around which components may write to agent state files — before agentic tooling scales further internally.
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