AI Agent · Taiwan · The Register
If you're not tapping AI to attack your own systems, your adversaries will
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Agents are also the new attack surface - cue defenders' existential angst.
Key facts
- Over the three-day attack, Armadin's swarm generated 17 million offensive actions, discovered 38 validated attack paths, and produced 238 security findings
- So if you had 10,000 external systems with a limited amount of time and humans, you could maybe cover 2,000 or 1,000 of those within that particular period of time
- There is tremendous risk associated with agentic AI and machine identities,” Matt Hartman, former acting head of cyber of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), told
- Mandiant founder and former CEO Kevin Mandia has a new company, Armadin, which launched in March with a startling $190 million in seed and Series A funding
Summary
AI agents excel at hacking organizations, as they’ve demonstrated in real-life attacks multiple times over the past few weeks. As if defenders needed more worries to keep them up at night, agents introduce new data-integration channels that attackers can abuse. “There is tremendous risk associated with agentic AI and machine identities,” Matt Hartman, former acting head of cyber of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), told The Register. “As AI moves from generating content – yesterday's use case – to taking actions, it is inevitable that agents are going to receive access to sensitive systems and sensitive data,” Hartman said.