Social Engineering AI Agents: The New BEC for 2026

Dark Reading feed covering emerging cybersecurity threats and defensive developments, with a strong focus on AI-agent abuse, prompt-driven cloud compromise, agentic social engineering, malware and ransomware campaigns, zero-days, IoT and OT exploitation, and critical infrastructure attacks. Notable items include a reportedly patched AWS Bedrock AgentCore vulnerability enabling fleet takeover via a single prompt, weaponized Apple and Citrix flaws, ClickFix payload concealment, botnets deploying AI agents on exposed Docker hosts, and espionage and ransomware activity attributed to Chinese and–or