The Long Con on the Web: Earn-then-Exploit Fraud Attacks against Coding Agents

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Xingling Xu, Zhengwei Jiang, Zheng Zhi, Fangming Dong, LingJia Guo, Wei Dong, Chunyan Ma, Jun Jiang)

Summary by Cyber Security News3 Nov 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2611.00725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents increasingly operate with web access and high privileges, creating a new attack surface where web fraud can directly target autonomous agents. Existing studies mainly focus on malicious links, prompt injection, and interface deception, while content-level web fraud against agents and the amplification of attacks through agent trust remain underexplored.

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