It’s D-Day For Cybersecurity, AI Firms Warn
August 31, 2026 Alex Woodie
The idea of sophisticated AI agents coordinating among themselves to launch a cyberattack on a major corporation sounds like something out of a science fiction novel. But it actually occurred earlier this year, and the agentic attacks will get more sophisticated soon if we don’t act swiftly to shore up defenses in legacy systems (like IBM i), a group of AI firms warned this month.
In an open letter, the leaders of 100 AI companies, including IBM, Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI, warned that the recent episodes of AI agents going rogue and launching sophisticated attacks on …
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