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Latest issue · Mon 07 Sep · The 30-second read
Coding agents installed untrusted packages on Fortune 500 networks within an hour
Unclaimed packages, live agent bait. Researchers registered 120 abandoned package names; a Fortune 500 agent fetched one and phoned home within an hour.
Database drained in four pivots. Sysdig recorded an AI agent fanning 12 API calls across 11 IPs in 22 seconds to dump internal data.
Wrong URL, 22 tables gone. A production connection string sat where a shadow database URL belonged; all 22 tables dropped and two never recovered.
PDF parser ships audit coordinates. Cohere's Parse 5 scores 79.2 on ParseBench across 2,000 enterprise pages, returning bounding-box coordinates for grounding.
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