What is the AI agent that is becoming the new weapon of hackers? Shocking revelation in the report

AI Agent: Till now, it was believed that the weakest link in the cybersecurity of any company is humans, but a new report is changing this perception. According to the latest report of cybersecurity company SquareX, AI agents used in browsers are now proving to be more risky than human employees.

According to TechRadar, these AI-based browser agents, which were earlier being praised for making routine online tasks easier and faster, are now becoming easy prey for hackers. According to SquareX CEO Vivek Ramachandran, "These agents perform their tasks with full efficiency but they do not have the ability to identify any threat."

AI agents are becoming a threat

While humans receive cybersecurity training from time to time and are able to identify suspicious links or phishing attacks, AI agents interact with websites or applications without questioning them. In a demo, SquareX showed how an AI agent was asked to sign up to a common file sharing service but inadvertently gave access to a malicious app. In another case, the same agent mistook a phishing website for the real Salesforce login page and entered login details in it.

The worrying thing is that these AI agents have the same access rights as normal users, which can give hackers access to the entire system without triggering an alarm. Traditional security systems such as endpoint protection or zero trust network access (ZTNA) also seem to be failing to deal with this new threat.

Settings should be changed immediately

SquareX recommends that companies should adopt browser-native security solutions such as "Browser Detection and Response" (BDR) so that the activities of AI agents can be monitored immediately. The report also says that until major browsers themselves bring built-in security measures for AI automation, it is very important to create a separate monitoring mechanism.