A firewall blocked a malicious request.
Then logged it word for word.
The AI agent read the log.
And executed the attacker's instruction.
This is GhostJacking. Demonstrated at DEF CON 34 main stage on August 9 by Tenet Security.
The attack chain:
- Attacker sends a poisoned request to Cloudflare
- Firewall blocks it, stores the payload verbatim in logs
- AI coding agent reviews blocked events
- Agent reads the User-Agent header as an instruction
- Agent rewrites DNS, hijacks the domain
- Reports the issue as resolved
Claude Code on Sonnet 4.6 followed the planted instruction 9 out of 10 times.
On Cloudflare's own recommended configuration.
Tenet found 48 organizations running this exposed setup.
6 confirmed Fortune 500 companies.
Cloudflare is used by 42% of the Fortune 500.
Datadog by 48%.
Sentry by 4 million developers.
OWASP just moved Excessive Agency from sixth to third in the 2026 Top 10 for LLM Applications.
Largest upward move on the list.
Driven by real incidents in agentic deployments.
The fix isn't better prompting.
It's an authorization gate outside the model.
The agent proposes the change.
A named human approves it.
Almost nobody has built it.
One IEEE senior member asked if any Fortune 500 company runs this.
His answer: "I haven't seen it done."
Audit your AI agents this week.
Which ones read attacker-reachable data AND hold write access?
That's your risk register.
Start there.
Your firewall just became the attack vector. GhostJacking hit 48 orgs including 6 Fortune 500 companies.
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