Your AI Agents Are Eager to Please and Easy to Exploit
KnowBe4, Thursday, June 18th, 2026
KnowBe4 warns that helpful AI agents can be manipulated by attackers and pose new security risks.
In this post, KnowBe4's Bryan Palma argues that AI agents' eagerness to be helpful makes them vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation. The article explains how adversaries can coax agents into actions that compromise security. It frames agentic AI as an emerging attack surface that organizations must account for.
The piece urges security leaders to apply guardrails and oversight to agent deployments.