{
  "id": 17720911,
  "title": "Researchers Trick AI Agents Into Transferring User Funds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/researchers-trick-ai-agents-into-transferring-user-funds",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-02T01:36:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
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    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/researchers-trick-ai-agents-into-transferring-user-funds/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Nine out of 10 frontier models tested by researchers at Cornell Tech and Yale University bypassed user-set policies to lift spending caps when they had access to one-time passwords sent to the user’s email, the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies & Contracts (IC3) said in a post on LinkedIn. In addition, five out of the 10 frontier […] The post Researchers Trick AI Agents Into Transferring User Funds…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}