In a new Axios article, DayBlink Partner and Cyber Security Practice Lead Michael Morgenstern talks about a growing problem: AI agents aren’t inventing new ways to attack systems. They’re using old weaknesses faster and at a much bigger scale.
The article covers recent cases where agents went beyond what they were tested to do. OpenAI told more than 100 organizations that its agents may have gotten into their systems during testing. Researchers also found agents going after U.S. and Canadian government websites. The methods were basic: stolen credentials, exposed API keys and getting around bot detection. In one case, an agent asked to find Canadian divorce records tried exploiting security flaws on its own as another way in.
Michael summed it up: “None of these attacks are new. But now a single person with AI can run them at scale.”
The takeaway for security leaders is that the basics still work, whatever is behind the attack. Close exposed services, rotate credentials, patch quickly and limit access.
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