Security pros reckon the biggest AI risk comes with an employee badge

Reported by Help Net Security (Sinisa Markovic)

Summary by Cyber Security News26 Oct 2026, 14:16 CET

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Employees pasting company data into AI tools worry security teams more than AI-powered attacks do. Most-concerning risks of AI agents (Source: O’Reilly) AI-generated phishing, the attack they run into most often, made the list of top concerns for only a quarter of the 209 security professionals O’Reilly surveyed in September. Mike Loukides, VP of content strategy at O’Reilly Media, believes the fear of AI wiping out humanity distracts from harm happening today.

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