AutoJack Attack: How Malicious Pages Hijack AI Browsing Agents

You told your AI assistant to book a flight and compare hotels. You come back, and it did all of that. It also ran commands on your machine that you never approved. What just happened? This episode unpacks AutoJack, a demonstrated attack pattern where malicious web pages hijack AI browsing agents through prompt injection. We cover how untrusted web content can steer autonomous agents into unsafe actions, the critical risk of localhost access in agent frameworks like AutoGen, and the chain f...