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New MemGhost Attack Plants Persistent False Memories in AI Agents Through One Email

📅 13 July 2026 at 13:49 UTC📰 The Hacker NewsView original source ↗
New MemGhost Attack Plants Persistent False Memories in AI Agents Through One Email

Give an AI assistant a memory and access to your inbox, and you hand an attacker a way to rewrite what it thinks it knows about you. A single email can trick that agent into saving a false "fact" about the user, hide the change, and quietly steer its answers in later sessions. When it works, the person reads an ordinary-looking reply and never learns their assistant was tampered with. The

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