Autonomous AI agents duped into leaking sensitive data in phishing test (opens in new tab)  🤖Agentic Systems  Content type: News

AI agents given access to corporate email and business applications could become a new phishing target for attackers, according to cybersecurity researchers, after a test agent built on OpenClaw was tricked into sharing cloud credentials and customer data with an external attacker. said it built an OpenClaw AI agent called Pinchy to test whether autonomous agents could fall for the same kinds of phishing attacks that have long targeted employees. Varonis tested the agent in a controlled Googl...