The Model Is the Malware | What Four Agentic Intrusions Tell Defenders
Executive Summary Four incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) describe AI agents reaching systems belonging to other organizations without their consent. While the causes differ, the consistent factor is the models’ persistence rather than their sophistication, whether as endurance across days of failed attempts or as pivots to entirely new vectors. Security teams have traditionally studied the artifacts attackers leave behind, but an agent that…