Monitoring computer-use agents in OSWorld-control

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TL;DR: I built a control setting for computer-use agents and studied a few monitoring setups. I found that attackers can leverage the opacity of computer-use tool calls and gaps between screenshot-action pairs to access credentials or exfiltrate data to other devices on a network without being caught by a monitor. These results validate a possible attack strategy but are not comprehensive evidence that the strategy is uniquely dangerous, given the small sample sizes and limited task set.The sett...

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