Why Securing AI Agents Is More Critical Than Ever

## Executive summary This advisory warns that autonomous AI agents and widespread unvetted AI tools dramatically expand attack surfaces and enable more potent threats—hyper-personalized social engineering, accelerated zero-day discovery, autonomous ‘hack bots’, prompt/context injections, model/data poisoning, and privilege abuse—while recommending stricter AI access controls, continuous discovery, AI-enabled defenses, and formal threat modeling frameworks.