Agentjacking: How AI Coding Agents Get Hijacked Through Their Own Tool Pipeline

Your AI coding agent can read files, run shell commands, and call external APIs. That's also the exact description of an arbitrary code execution primitive — and attackers have figured that out. A recent report from The Hacker News details "Agentjacking," a class of attack that hijacks AI-powered coding agents by manipulating their tool-execution pipeline. The agent isn't compromised at the model level — it's compromised through the tools it trusts. The agent reads something malicious, reasons...