The AI Attack Surface: How Agents Raise the Cyber Stakes

This article outlines the emerging threat landscape for agentic AI systems, highlighting how autonomous AI agents can be manipulated via prompt injection and other techniques to leak data, escalate privileges, and execute remote code; it cites CVE-2025-53773 (a VS Code/GitHub Copilot Agent issue) as an example and recommends mitigations like strict access controls, input/output filtering, and API whitelisting.