The Rise Of Agentic Fraud: How AI Agents Are Reshaping Security
Security Boulevard, Thursday, March 12th, 2026
Your users aren't always visiting your website themselves anymore. More and more, they're now sending AI agents to act on their behalf. ChatGPT, Claude, and other agentic systems can now register accounts, log in, make purchases, manage profiles, and execute transactions without direct human oversight.
But with this shift comes a critical new threat: agentic fraud.
According to Forrester, agentic traffic has become a distinct category requiring specialized controls, prompting them to rename Bot Management to Bot & Agent Trust Management. According to McKinsey research, by 2030, agentic commerce could drive up to $1 trillion in US B2C retail revenue, with $3-5 trillion globally.
The challenge for security teams is increasingly complex: how do we distinguish legitimate, helpful AI agent traffic from malicious agentic fraud?