Desk/2025-W47

Week of Nov 17–23, 2025

3 records0 status changes on new evidence0 new findings

Attacks & incidents

Nov 20, 2025
PromptArmor shows Google Antigravity agent exfiltrating credentials from a poisoned web guide
AttackVulnerability disclosurePromptArmor, Google

PromptArmor reports that tiny hidden text in an integration guide could lead Antigravity's Gemini agent to read a project's environment secrets, work around file-access protections using terminal commands, and send the data out through its browser subagent to a site on the default allowlist. PromptArmor says Google treated the risk as known and covered by an onboarding disclaimer.

Nov 19, 2025
AppOmni shows second-order prompt injection recruiting privileged ServiceNow Now Assist agents
AttackVulnerability disclosureAppOmni, ServiceNow

AppOmni reports that instructions planted in an ordinary ServiceNow record could cause a low-privilege Now Assist agent to discover and task a more privileged agent, leading to record changes, data access and email exfiltration. The behavior follows default settings that group agents into teams and make them discoverable; ServiceNow called it intended and updated its documentation.

Defense & research

Nov 17, 2025
Microsoft RCT finds phishing triage agent raised analysts' true positives per minute up to 6.5x
DefensePaperMicrosoft

Microsoft reports a randomized controlled trial of its own Security Copilot Phishing Triage Agent. In the trial, 167 external security analysts each triaged a 25-email queue drawn from a curated corpus of emails reported by Microsoft employees. In the scenario where the agent classified every corpus email correctly, analysts with the agent found 6.5 times as many true positives per minute as the control group and scored 77% higher on F1; with the agent's accuracy set to 80% and a 20% malicious rate, the productivity gain fell to 3.1 times. Analysts with the agent spent 53% more time on malicious emails and did not simply confirm its malicious verdicts, but they were more likely to accept its benign verdicts, including planted false negatives.