As AI agents gain authority over business systems, attackers can manipulate them like business email compromise (BEC) victims.
As AI agents gain authority over business systems, attackers can manipulate them like business email compromise (BEC) victims.
In context
- Topic: Ciberseguridad — Riesgo, identidad, respuesta a incidentes y cumplimiento.
- Source: Dark Reading
- Published: 09/10/2026
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Why it matters
Every time I read a case like this I think the same thing: security is not bought, it is operated. You can own every tool on the market and remain exposed if nobody reviews the alerts, if patches get applied when there is time, or if the backup was never tested by actually restoring it.
I read it with the same short list as always: second factor on anything that grants access, tested backups kept off the network, and a real inventory of what is exposed to the internet. It is not glamorous, and it still prevents most disasters.
What usually goes wrong
The most expensive blind spot is usually the supplier. The organisation hardens its own perimeter and grants broad access to a third party that has half those controls. A good share of the incidents I have seen in this region came in that way, and the contract said nothing about it.
What to watch
- How long it took to detect, usually the most revealing metric in the whole case.
- Whether initial access came from a legitimate account handled badly, which is the most frequent pattern.
- What could be restored and how fast — a backup that was never tested does not count.
How I read this entry
What I would review this very week is access: accounts belonging to people who left, permissions that grew without anyone trimming them, and shared credentials everybody swears do not exist. It is the least glamorous work and the one that cuts off the most attacks.
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Living through this in your own team?
Open the chat and tell me how you're handling it. I'm interested in comparing notes.
