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> AI Agents Are Becoming Privilege Escalation Paths

[SOURCE] The Hacker News [DATE: 14/01/2026 15:07] [LANGUAGE: EN]
AI Agents Are Becoming Privilege Escalation Paths
AI agents have quickly moved from experimental tools to core components of daily workflows across security, engineering, IT, and operations. What began as individual productivity aids, like personal code assistants, chatbots, and copilots, has evolved into shared, organization-wide agents embedded in critical processes. These agents can orchestrate workflows across multiple systems, for example:
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