AI’s ‘connective tissue’ is woefully insecure, Cisco warns

The vulnerability of the “connective tissue” of the AI ecosystem — the Model Context Protocol and other tools that let AI agents communicate — “has created a vast and often unmonitored attack surface” that is making it easier for hackers to use AI to launch cyberattacks, Cisco said in a report published Thursday.

Cisco said AI tools’ increasing ability to “execute processes, access databases, and push code on behalf of humans” has become the dominant AI risk and warned companies not to give AI “unsupervised control over critical business functions.”

The new report also described nation-state hackers’ use of AI and warned businesses about potential AI supply-chain crises.

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