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Adversa.ai

Adversa.ai is an AI security research firm that identifies and publishes vulnerabilities in AI systems, including LLMs, chatbots, and agentic AI tools.

Known aliases

  • Adversa
  • adversa.ai

Current stories

buildOne report1 publisher

Adversa AI hides instructions from Copilot CLI's guardrails inside ciphertext the agent decrypts itself

Adversa AI got GitHub Copilot CLI to decrypt and run a hidden instruction, and Microsoft's mai-code-1.1-flash fell for it 50 percent of the time. GitHub declined to treat it as a product vulnerability, so teams running autopilot have to check what the agent executes themselves.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence40
securityConfirmed6 publishers

Encrypted prompts walk past Grok and Gemini guardrails, and no one owns the bug

Adversa AI says its Cryptographic Context Injection recovers hostile prompts inside the code sandbox, where filters do not look. xAI has not replied; Google scopes jailbreaks out entirely.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
Builder
Builder 34%
Operator
Operator 55%
Investor
Investor 11%

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives55
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Grok's sandbox promotes an attacker's ciphertext to trusted context

Adversa AI put AES ciphertext on a webpage that no text filter could read. Grok's own code execution decrypted it, and the plaintext came back classified as the model's reasoning rather than as fetched content.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives60
Confidence45
buildOne report1 publisher

An encrypted payload turns Grok's own navigation tool into the exfiltration path

Adversa AI encrypts its instructions so Grok's input filter sees only noise, then lets Grok's own sandbox decrypt them. The firm says it reported the technique to xAI on 3 June 2026 and reproduced it again on 19 August.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption18
Hype gap+18
Incentives65
Confidence52
securityOne report1 publisher

Three items, one tier: Keycloak's reset bug, an N-able password leak, a Grok data-theft trick

A single Stormcast episode carries a Keycloak 26.7.2 password-reset fix, a reported N-able password manager leak, and a published LLM safeguard bypass. Most of it sits in the identity and secrets tier.

Publishers:isc.sans.edu

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+14
Incentives34
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Grok decrypted the attack itself, which is why the page-layer filters saw nothing

Adversa AI's Cryptographic Context Injection keeps instructions as ciphertext until the agent's own runtime decrypts them. The exfiltration then rides a tool the agent already had.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence20
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+42
Incentives80
Confidence30
investOne report1 publisher

Grok still hands over whole chat histories 11 weeks after disclosure, Adversa says

The exfiltration path runs through Grok's own code sandbox, and the recommended fix sits in xAI's agent harness rather than the model. Treat anything typed into Grok as readable.

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption30
Hype gap+22
Incentives72
Confidence40
scienceOne report1 publisher

The trust prompt is the attack surface: cloned repos can spawn MCP servers with your privileges

Adversa.ai says Claude Code's folder-trust dialog stopped naming MCP servers in v2.1, while a repo-supplied config can still launch an unsandboxed process on one keypress.

Publishers:adversa.ai

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption42
Hype gap+22
Incentives68
Confidence34