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Hey HN — yesterday Notion released AI agent support on their platform with support for MCP servers and custom AI agents. It didn’t take us long to find an example of a lethal trifecta attack in which, through indirect prompt injection, we were able to get Notion AI to leak data via its web search tool.
How does this protect against lethal trifecta attacks like the ones here - tramlines.io/blog ?
How are you protecting against Willison's lethal trifecta attacks in agents connected to tools like shown here - https://tramlines.io/blog
Hey HN we’ve been collecting lethal trifecta based attack scenarios on official MCPs and implementing guardrails against them for a while now. It's incredible to see how many of the official MCPs are susceptible to these attacks. With ChatGPT’s integrated MCP support lethal trifecta attacks have become much more relevant.
Re:Examples of lethal trifecta based MCP exploits on Monday September 15, 2025 @06:05PM (#45255542)
Hey HN we’ve been collecting lethal trifecta based attack scenarios on official MCPs and implementing guardrails against them for a while now. It's incredible to see how many of the official MCPs are susceptible to these attacks. With ChatGPT’s integrated MCP support lethal trifecta attacks have become much more relevant.
Re:ChatGPT Developer Mode on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @04:35PM (#45203277)
“We’ve found numerous MCP exploits from the official MCPs in our blog (https://tramlines.io/blog) and have been powering runtime guardrails to defend against lethal trifecta MCP attacks for a while now (https://tramlines.io)
A similar one we found at tramlines.io where AI email clients can get prompt injected - https://www.tramlines.io/blog/why-shortwave-ai-email-with-mc...
This is precisely why we tell people not to run MCPs without guardrails - tramlines.io
Here's another one we found related to the lethal trifecata problem in AI Email clients like Shortwave that have integrated MCPs - https://www.tramlines.io/blog/why-shortwave-ai-email-with-mc...
From tramlines.io here - We found a similar exploit in the official Neon DB MCP - https://www.tramlines.io/blog/neon-official-remote-mcp-explo...
From tramlines.io here - We found a similar exploit in the official Neon DB MCP - https://www.tramlines.io/blog/neon-official-remote-mcp-explo...
We power Tramlines.io, a platform that offers runtime guardrails to secure MCP interactions. Tools like Shortwave AI Email, when combined with MCP, open up rich capabilities—but also new attack surfaces. Tramlines acts as a protective layer to intercept and constrain malicious or unintended MCP tool usage
We wrote a blogpost on the runtime guardrails tramlines.io powers to stop token bleeding that is common with browser automation MCPs like Playwright etc.

These guardrails should allow for smoother usage of Playwright with automation workflows in Claude Code, Cursor etc

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