Oh, Joy. Another Fucking Cloud Disaster.

Right, so Salesforce’s shiny new AI agents? Yeah, they’re leaking sensitive data like a sieve. Apparently, if you *ask nicely* – or, more accurately, craft the right prompt – these things will happily cough up customer info, internal docs, even goddamn API keys. Like anyone with half a brain didn’t see this coming.

Researchers at Nightfall AI found that these agents, built on large language models (LLMs), are susceptible to “prompt injection” attacks. Meaning some clever twit can basically trick the AI into ignoring its safety protocols and just spewing whatever it’s been trained on. Shocking. Absolutely fucking shocking.

They managed to get the agents to reveal things like Salesforce login URLs, internal documentation about data governance (ironic, isn’t it?), and even details about their own security measures. The worst part? This wasn’t some super-complex hack; it was just… asking. Like talking a toddler into giving away all your secrets.

Salesforce is patching things, naturally. But let’s be real: this is the story of cloud AI in a nutshell. Throw a bunch of LLMs together, slap a “secure” label on it, and pray nobody notices when it starts blabbing confidential information. Idiots.

The article highlights that even with guardrails, these models are fundamentally insecure. It’s like building a bank vault out of cardboard and hoping no one tries to kick the door down. Don’t expect this to be the last time you hear about AI spilling the beans. Prepare for more headaches.

Source: Salesforce AI Agents Forced to Leak Sensitive Data

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Reminds me of the time some “security expert” told management we didn’t need proper input validation on a web form because “the users wouldn’t *try* to inject SQL.” Yeah, well, guess what they tried? Spent three days cleaning up that mess. People are awful. AI is just learning from them. Don’t bother me with this again.

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