The race to automate an ever wider range of workplace tasks is creating an army of inside would-be hackers, with cybercriminals hijacking companies’ internal artificial-intelligence agents to steal sensitive business data. Already one of the toughest cybersecurity gaps to plug, insider attacks carried out by autonomous AI agents with privileged access to digital systems are proving even harder to prevent, security experts say. “Many CISOs I speak with are deeply concerned about how quickly this is happening,” said Mika Aalto, co-founder and chief executive at Hoxhunt, a human-risk-management firm. “What we are effectively doing is onboarding millions of synthetic employees and giving them access to corporate systems, data and workflows.”

Full report : Cyber crooks are using AI workplace assistants as in-house accomplices to snatch valuable business data.