AI Agent Attack Surface Is 'Exploding,' Security Researcher Warns

A security researcher cataloged the growing list of exfiltration targets as AI agents gain access to more systems — from crypto wallets to internal codebases — with far less oversight than the humans they're replacing.

Security researcher @TakSec published a thread documenting what they called an "exploding" attack surface for AI agent exfiltration, cataloging the systems agents now routinely access: internal APIs, cloud credentials, database connections, and — increasingly — financial infrastructure including crypto wallets.

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