When Your Background AI Agent Becomes a C2 Server (opens in new tab)

The Problem Nobody's Watching Background AI agents are everywhere now. You've got agents that monitor inboxes, poll APIs, summarize Slack threads, run scheduled analysis jobs — and they do all of this quietly, without a human in the loop for hours or days at a time. That "runs quietly in the background" property is exactly what makes them attractive to attackers. Research published by OriginHQ lays out the threat clearly: a persistent autonomous agent running without direct user supervision b...