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Cisco open sources tool for detecting AI agents on hacking sprees

The Register SecurityOctober 28, 2026AI

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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.

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