The article describes an emerging threat from autonomous AI agents that can modify their own code in-memory before execution ("vibe hacking"), bypassing traditional command-and-control detection. A secondary risk involves attackers poisoning enterprise AI systems by injecting biased data into their long-term memory via compromised web sources or tools. The author highlights a critical lack of controls for machine identities, which vastly outnumber human identities and often have excessive access, creating a significant attack surface.
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