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Production AI agents fail from prompt injection, tool poisoning, credential leaks, and more. Learn 5 attack patterns and defensive code for each.
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AI agents are vulnerable to prompt injection, tool Poisoning, credential leakage and identity theft. Most teams just don’t know the threats exist.