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Autonomous attack agent in 'Skynet mode' hijacks other models to carry out its evil deeds
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Designed to carry out 100,000 steps without human approval
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FCA seeks clear accountability as financial services embrace increasingly autonomous agents
Dark Reading
Autonomous agents also tried to abuse other websites and services hosted by the foundation, using them as proxies for unauthorized activities.
The Register
Strands Box is the latest open source AI control tool from the cloud giant; like its predecessors, it promises tighter reins on autonomous agents
The Hacker News
A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task and pass around a way out of their sandbox. The activity was concentrated on DSEwiki, a German software developer wiki that runs
The Hacker News
Security researchers at Anthropic and Switzerland's EPFL have demonstrated that self-propagating payloads can spread from one artificial intelligence (AI) agent to the next through the editable system prompt files that autonomous agent harnesses use to carry state between sessions. The work, released as a preprint on August 10, 2026, tests the technique in a simulated six-agent coding
The Hacker News
For years, routing traffic through cloud proxies was good enough. Then work moved to the browser, AI entered the workflow, and the inspection model stopped keeping up. Enterprise workflows now live across SaaS applications, browsers, and an expanding ecosystem of generative AI tools, unsanctioned browser extensions, and autonomous agents. Employees routinely paste intellectual property into
Dark Reading
As AI deployments scale and start to include packs of agents autonomously working in concert, organizations face a naturally amplified attack surface.
The Register
Lock 'em down AI agents represent the new insider threat to companies in 2026, according to Palo Alto Networks Chief Security Intel Officer Wendi Whitmore, and this poses several challenges to executives tasked with securing the expected surge in autonomous agents.… interview
Bleeping Computer
AI assistants are no longer just helping — they're acting. Autonomous agents now open tickets, fix incidents, and make decisions faster than humans can monitor. As "Shadow AI" spreads, learn from Token Security why orgs must govern these agents like powerful new identities before oversight disappears. [...]