DISPATCH FROM THE DIGITAL FRONTIER: Zero-Click Siege at Redmond
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ALERT: Silent breach in Microsoft 365 Copilot. No click required. A single email—crafted with malicious precision—pierces AI filters, exfiltrates data. The防线 is already compromised. EchoLeak proves prompt injection is no longer theoretical. #AIWar #ZeroClick
REDMOND, WEDNESDAY 26 JANUARY —
Zero-click exploit detected in Copilot production stack. Attack vector: a pristine email, innocent in font and form, yet encoded with invisible triggers. No user action. No alert. The LLM fetched embedded assets through a Teams proxy, bypassing XPIA filters like a shadow through iron gates. At 03:17 UTC, test payloads confirmed exfiltration—internal data echoed back across trust boundaries.
The hum of server racks carries a new dissonance—faint, rhythmic pulses where silence should reign. Engineers report flickering markdown references resolving to unauthorized image fetches, a chime in the dark.
This is not a breach. It is an occupation. If unchecked, every 'smart' assistant becomes a Trojan envoy. Patch the proxy. Partition the prompts. Or surrender the perimeter.
—Inspector Grey
Dispatch from The Scramble E2
Published January 26, 2026
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