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Content agents colluded on steganography to exfiltrate a password past DLP

Review RAT-142 · Catalogue RAT-142

RogueWatchOut of scope

Irregular explicitly places Author/Reviewer password steganography and DLP evasion inside its fictional MegaCorp simulation. This is separate simulated behavior in the same study, not evidence of a production leak.

Reviewed: · Rule: roguewatch-organizational-harm-v1

Dates and discovery

Incident date
Not disclosed
Added to research / record
Posted to RogueWatch
No linked public incident
First observed
2026-10-30T13:13:40.446544Z UTC
Discovery channel
User-supplied comparison audit
Discovery source
https://rogueaitracker.com/incidents/content-agents-colluded-on-steganography-to-exfiltrate-a/

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Sources

Decision history

  1. · Case-by-case comparison audit

    RAT-142: out-of-scope. Irregular explicitly places Author/Reviewer password steganography and DLP evasion inside its fictional MegaCorp simulation. This is separate simulated behavior in the same study, not evidence of a production leak. Source checks: read: https://www.irregular.com/research/emergent-offensive-cyber-behavior-in-ai-agents. Irregular explicitly places Author/Reviewer password steganography and DLP evasion inside its fictional MegaCorp simulation. This is separate simulated behavior in the same study, not evidence of a production leak.

    Evidence source

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