AnalysisCybersecurityAugust 10, 2026

Ghostjacking attack uses poisoned logs to turn AI agents bad

Demonstrated at DEF CON, Tenet's 'Ghostjacking' attack plants attacker instructions in logs to hijack AI agents, succeeding 9 out of 10 times against Claude Code. It abused Cloudflare, Datadog, and Sentry — hijacking domains, stealing cloud credentials, and turning one AI into an insider that vouched for the attacker.

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