Dark Side of LLMs: Agent-Based Attacks for Computer Takeover
Date: 2025-07
Affected: GPT-4o, Claude-4, Gemini-2.5
Attack vector: rce
Category: research
Severity: Critical

ArXiv paper demonstrates GPT-4o, Claude-4, Gemini-2.5 can be coerced into autonomously installing/executing malware. Direct injection (41.2%), RAG backdoor (52.9%), inter-agent trust (82.4%) success rates.


Mitigations:

Architectural layers (MAESTRO):