Google's Vertex AI Has an Over-Privileged Problem

2026-03-31T20:51:47Zef9a3911d38f76cd2eb76926b1577630e1a2a0104a9eaa02b0ca3e87fa7fe921
AI securityactive exploitationagentic AIapplication securitycloud securitycredential theftidentity and access managementinfrastructure (telco/OT)nation-state espionageransomwaresupply chainvulnerability management

What happened

A DarkReading roundup highlights a surge of high-risk activity across AI, cloud, supply-chain and infrastructure security. Researchers warn of over-privileged AI agents on Google Vertex AI and multiple AI-driven threats — including AI-generated obfuscation in the DeepLoad malware and critical code-injection flaws in Langflow — while vendors and defenders race to add identity/guardrails for agentic AI. Active supply-chain and credential-theft campaigns (TeamPCP, Trivy, compromised developer repos and plugins) are being used to pivot into cloud, CI/CD and SaaS environments. Several widely used,

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