AI Agents Are the Next Hacking Victims, Bugcrowd CEO Says — SkimNews
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- Dave Gerry, CEO of Bugcrowd, told Axios that AI agents themselves will become victims of hacks, not only the humans who deploy them.
- Current cyber defenses are designed to predict and defend human behavior, leaving AI agents as a new and unprotected attack surface.
- Gerry framed the warning against a backdrop of AI-enabled cyberattacks already reshaping the threat landscape.
- Companies will need to expand their security posture to treat AI agents as potential victims requiring their own protections.
Why it matters: Every company deploying AI agents now faces an emerging threat class their existing security stacks weren't designed for: the agents themselves as targets. Defenses optimized for human user behavior leave a blind spot that attackers exploiting agent-specific vulnerabilities could exploit before enterprise security teams catch up.
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