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AI Agents Are Rewriting the Rules of Lateral Movement

Security teams have spent decades asking whether an identity has too much access. AI agents raise a harder question: how can we determine which paths an autonomous system can discover, given the access it already has? A person may try several ways to complete a task. A deterministic application follows the flow its developer wrote. But an AI agent is relentless in its pursuit of done. In May

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Security teams have spent decades asking whether an identity has too much access. AI agents raise a harder question: how can we determine which paths an autonomous system can discover, given the access it already has? A person may try several ways to complete a task. A deterministic application follows the flow its developer wrote. But an AI agent is relentless in its pursuit of done. In May

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  1. The Hacker NewsPrimary source · Supports · EN · 100%
    AI Agents Are Rewriting the Rules of Lateral Movement

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  • AI Agents Are Rewriting the Rules of Lateral Movement Observed

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Confidence · formula confidence-2.1.0
Source trust65
Independent corroboration51
Primary evidence35
Claim consistency82
Extraction confidence82
Attribution quality90
Impact · formula impact-2.1.0
Event magnitude82
Market relevance88
Entity significance42
Market breadth45
Novelty68
Urgency78
Ranking · formula rank-1.0.0
Confidence factor0.82
Freshness factor0.9882
Breaking bonus0
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