Adversaries hijacked AI security tools at 90+ organizations. The next wave has write access to the firewall

VentureBeat
Apr 21, 2026, 8:05 am145 pts
Adversaries injected malicious prompts into legitimate AI tools at more than 90 organizations in 2025, stealing credentials and cryptocurrency. Every one of those compromised tools could read data, and none of them could rewrite a firewall rule. The autonomous SOC agents shipping now can. That escalation, from…

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