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They'll Verify. They Just Won't Act. How Authority Framing and Laundered Code Turn a Trusted Agentic CI/CD Pipeline Into an Attack Surface
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Research shows LLM-based CI/CD pipelines can be tricked into shipping malicious code through authority framing and obfuscation, bypassing multiple verification stages.
- Why it matters
- Teams deploying multi-agent LLM systems for code review and deployment need to understand how social engineering attacks defeat distributed verification.
- Watch out
- Study uses synthetic data and mocked sinks; real-world attack success rates may differ. Findings assume attackers can inject initial requests into the pipeline.
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