4 papers
AI Snitches Get Glitches: Towards Evading Agentic Surveillance
Hyejun Jeong, Dzung Pham, Amir Houmansadr +1
To better assist users with completing challenging tasks, AI agents mediate communications, access data, and interact with different APIs. Many employers (and even nation-states) a…
Whose Agent Are You? Multi-Layer Fingerprinting and Attribution of Autonomous Web Agents
Dayeon Kang, Hyejun Jeong, Jade Sheffey +2
As AI web agents proliferate, combining large language models with autonomous, browser-level control, indiscriminate content scraping by web agents has emerged as a privacy and sec…
Understanding Persuasion in Long-Running Agents
Hyejun Jeong, Amir Houmansadr, Shlomo Zilberstein +1
Modern AI agents increasingly combine conversational interaction with autonomous task execution, such as coding and web research, raising a natural question: What happens when an a…
Network-Level Prompt and Trait Leakage in Local Research Agents
Hyejun Jeong, Mohammadreza Teymoorianfard, Abhinav Kumar +2
We show that Web and Research Agents (WRAs) -- language-model-based systems that investigate complex topics on the Internet -- are vulnerable to inference attacks by passive networ…