Phishing the agent: Why AI guardrails aren’t enough
AI agents are reshaping how enterprises automate work, but their effectiveness depends on access to sensitive systems and data.
The paradox is that granting them the permissions they want creates new attack surfaces that organizations aren’t yet equipped to handle.
This is the defining tension of the AI era.
AI agents are proliferating across enterprises with 91% of organizations already using them yet only 10% have a clear IT management strategy in place.
This gap matters because as these systems grow more autonomous and more deeply embedded in workflows, enterprises are operating without clear visibility, meaningful oversight and control over how their AI agents behave.
The access problem
Our recent research revealed how agents running on OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent automation platform, could expose credentials and leak sensitive information when attackers compromised the communication channels controlling them.
To appreciate the scale of this risk, we must first understand the...
Copyright of this story solely belongs to techradar.com. To see the full text click HERE
