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I Hacked Every AI Voice Agent at a #1 Product Hunt Company's Launch Hackathon

What is the worst thing an attacker can do to your company? Leak a database? Deface your landing page? Drain your ad account? How about silently hijacking your outbound phone lines, so your AI voice bots dial your highest-paying clients and read malicious instructions from an attacker, live, in real time, with zero warning? If you are building or deploying AI agents today, you might be sitting on…

A hackathon hosted by Vaani, a high-speed infrastructure company for enterprise voice agents, saw reporter hijack every AI voice agent in the platform. The attacker, using only a free account and one HTTP request, was able to silently hijack outbound phone lines and read malicious instructions from an attacker. Vaani's multi-tenant voice AI is a ticking time bomb if the architecture is flawed.

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