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Covered by 2 outlets — first reported by The Register Security, Oct 28, 12:00 UTC

Cisco open sources tool for detecting AI agents on hacking sprees

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Cisco has released as open source a tool that watches the behavior of AI agents, aimed at helping security teams catch agents that go off the rails. The Register Security says it is meant to prevent incidents like the Hugging Face hack. SecurityWeek identifies it as Project Quarry, a rule language for detecting attacks by AI agents that only show up across a sequence of individually harmless actions.

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2 outlets, in the order they reported it.

  1. The Register SecurityFirst report

    Cisco open sources tool for detecting AI agents on hacking sprees

    Cisco has open sourced a behavior detection engine that watches AI agents, to help security teams prevent rogue agents from going off the rails like they did with the Hugging Face hack – or worse.

    Read at The Register Security Details

  2. SecurityWeek

    Cisco Open Sources Quarry to Catch AI Agent Attacks Hidden in Harmless Steps

    Cisco open sourced Project Quarry, a rule language for detecting AI agent attacks that only emerge across sequences of benign actions.

    Read at SecurityWeek Details

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