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People are installing powerful AI agents on everyday laptops without realising those tools can access files, emails and operating system functions. Once prompt injected, that agent can behave like a malicious version of its user, which turns convenience into a direct path for deletion, exfiltration and loss of control.

A threat actor reportedly used a prompt injected AI model under the cover of a fake bug bounty story to help compromise government systems and extract large volumes of data. The case shows how jailbroken AI can become an active force multiplier for offensive operations, not merely a productivity tool.

AI adoption is happening faster than any technology cycle in history. Information security and risk management are being sacrificed for speed and every single technology revolution has followed the same pattern. In this episode of Razorwire Raw, Jim Rees draws on decades of experience through the internet boom, virtualisation revolution and cloud computing adoption to explain what's actually happening with AI right now. Each cycle has been faster than the last, and each time, security gets left behind.

Many organisations are pushing AI adoption at full speed while treating security as something to patch in later. The result is a market full of rapidly deployed models, third party tools and jailbreakable systems where capability gets rewarded first and control gets ignored until damage appears.

Prompt injection works because language models struggle to tell the difference between trusted instructions and untrusted user content. Unlike SQL injection or cross site scripting, there is no clean deterministic defence, which leaves code, libraries and AI workflows open to manipulation at multiple points.