Red-Teaming the Agentic Red-Team

This article presents a comprehensive security analysis of widely used agentic systems in offensive security, revealing common design vulnerabilities that allow adversaries to exfiltrate API keys and compromise operators' machines, even in sandboxed environments. The authors introduce a cyber kill chain specific to these systems, detailing the stages from LLM manipulation to sandbox escape. They propose a robust architectural framework and actionable design principles aimed at mitigating identified attack vectors, which is crucial for practitioners developing secure agentic tools in AI.