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Computer-Use Security

1The Perceive-Act Loop: Why a Screen-Driven Agent Turns the Display Into a Trust BoundaryResearch
2UI-Grounding Attacks: Decoy Elements, Overlay and Z-Order Tricks, and Pixel-Level SteeringResearch
3Action Hijack and Irreversibility: Blast Radius When an Agent Can Click AnythingResearch
4The Environment as Adversary: Malicious Apps, Pop-Ups, and Content-as-Instruction on ScreenResearch
5Containment for Computer-Use: Sandboxes, Action Gates, Human-in-the-Loop, and ReversibilityResearch

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