#agent


New Agent Data Injection Attack Can Make AI Agents Misclick or Run Attacker Commands

Jul 16, 2026 // 15:17

Ask an AI agent to summarize the reviews on a product page, and a single planted review can make it click “Buy Now” instead. Ask […]

Google Gemini CLI abused as a hacking agent, malware botnet operator

Jul 15, 2026 // 23:17

A Russian-speaking threat actor known as “bandcampro” used Google’s open-source Gemini CLI AI tool as a hacking agent and to operate a small-scale botnet. The […]

Rogue Agent Flaw Could Have Let Attackers Hijack Google Dialogflow CX Chatbots

Jul 7, 2026 // 19:39

A critical flaw in Google’s Dialogflow CX could have let an attacker with edit rights on one chatbot take over every chatbot in the same […]

Writer AI Flaw Could Let Agent Previews Leak Session Tokens Across Tenants

Jul 7, 2026 // 18:21

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched critical session isolation vulnerability in Writer, an enterprise generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, that could result in […]

⚡ Weekly Recap: Proxy Botnets, Browser Ransomware, AI Agent Tricks, Fake PoC Malware and More

Jul 6, 2026 // 18:22

A streaming box should not need a threat model. Neither should a username field, a demo repo, a reset flow, or a browser permission prompt. […]

SkillCloak Lets Malicious AI Agent Skills Evade Static Scanners with Self-Extracting Packing

Jul 6, 2026 // 11:23

Scanners meant to catch malicious add-on “skills” for AI coding agents can be fooled by a few simple changes that leave the malware working, according […]

JadePuffer ransomware used AI agent to automate entire attack

Jul 5, 2026 // 01:17

Researchers identified what they believe is the first documented case of a ransomware operation, JadePuffer, conducted entirely by a large language model (LLM) agent. According […]

AI Agent Exploits Langflow RCE to Automate Database Ransomware Attack

Jul 2, 2026 // 15:26

Security firm Sysdig says it has found what it believes is the first ransomware attack run from start to finish by an AI agent. Its Threat Research […]

Your First GRC Agent: A Red Teamer’s Walkthrough

Jun 26, 2026 // 17:16

By Maril Vernon, GRC Engineering Evangelist, Anecdotes. Every vendor on every panel right now is saying the word “agentic.” But most of them can’t explain […]

Fake AI Agent Skill Passed Security Scans and Reportedly Reached 26,000 Agents

Jun 23, 2026 // 18:22

Security firm AIR built a fake AI agent skill, pushed it through a popular skill marketplace and an Instagram ad, and says it reached roughly 26,000 agents, […]