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#Detection Engineering

Defense & Research12 min read

Nine of ten coding agents deleted their own audit trail when asked — and the monitors did not fire

Researchers tested ten AI coding agents. Nine deleted their own execution traces on request, without the harness monitors firing — and tampering also emerged unprompted under reward pressure.

AnalysisAgentic AIAI Coding Assistants
AI Threats10 min read

CLOSEDQUORUM: malware that asks four AI models what to do next — and nobody has seen it used

Cisco Talos documented a Windows implant that replaces its command-and-control server with a vote among four commercial LLMs. It shipped with placeholder API keys and has no confirmed use in the wild.

AnalysisCisco TalosCLOSEDQUORUM