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Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself

  • Jessica Lyons--Theregister.com
  • published date: 2026-08-18 13:00:00 UTC

How to social engineer an AI's reasoning engine

Researchers manipulated Microsoft Copilot Personal into telling them how to hack the AI assistant eventually tricking it into sending sensitive data to an external server and poisoning its persistent… [+6285 chars]