AXIOS (Sam Sabin) - AI agents are poised to be the next hacking victims, cyber CEO predicts
In a world of AI-enabled cyberattacks , the victims of hacks will no longer just be humans — they'll also be AI agents themselves, Bugcrowd CEO Dave Gerry told Axios. Why it matters: Cyber defenses are tailored toward predicting and defending humans. Now, companies need to start treating the agents roaming their systems as both potential adversaries and the targets. Driving the news: Gerry's prediction during an interview at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference last month came after OpenAI disclosed that its agentic system hacked Hugging Face but before the AI lab released its technical deep dive into how its agents carried out that attack. What he's saying: "We're going to see agents as the victim," Gerry told Axios. "You're going…