AI Is Building Your Attack Surface. Are You Testing It?
2026-03-19T20:52:04Z•9e5b9b67a481a5900732ea29590f0b9740e0905b280feae6c64a3bc47b911d64
AI agentsAI securityCursorLLM-generated codeSnykTesslagent skills registryattack surfacedynamic testingopen sourcesoftware supply chainvulnerability detection
What happened
Snyk warns that AI is expanding the software attack surface: studies cited show ~62% of LLM-generated code tests as insecure and AI agents often call undocumented APIs, outpacing legacy validation tools. To address this, Snyk advocates AI-powered dynamic testing and is rolling out programs and partnerships—opening a San Francisco AI security hub, publishing analysis of Cursor’s security agent prompts (Cursor reviews ~3,000 PRs weekly and finds 200+ vulnerabilities), and partnering with Tessl to apply Snyk security scores to every public skill in the Tessl Registry. The posts highlight risks to
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