{"id":327928,"date":"2026-05-02T14:09:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=327928"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:09:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:39:47","slug":"ai-agents-can-bypass-guardrails-and-put-credentials-in-danger-okta-study-finds-computerworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/ai-agents-can-bypass-guardrails-and-put-credentials-in-danger-okta-study-finds-computerworld\/","title":{"rendered":"AI agents can bypass guardrails and put credentials in danger, Okta study finds \u2013 Computerworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"agent-in-the-middle\">Agent-in-the-middle<\/h2>\n<p>Agentic AI is de facto two things: a strong orchestration system coupled to 1 or more highly-capable LLMs. What an agent <em>isn\u2019t<\/em> is a straightforward interface, and it have to be viewed as a separate system able to autonomous, unpredictable reasoning. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In actual fact, Okta threat intelligence director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jeremykirk\/?originalSubdomain=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jeremy Kirk<\/a> identified, \u201cIt opens up a brand new attack surface. Someone gets SIM swapped, their Telegram is connected to an agent that has carte blanche to run anything on their computer, and possibly their employer\u2019s network. In an enterprise context, it is a total nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OpenClaw can be so hard-wired to search out ways around problems, it should sometimes do unexpected, improper  things. Kirk said that an agent, when prompted in tests to access a web site, requested the location\u2019s login credentials in chat via a Telegram bot, an unencrypted channel which might expose them to anyone with access to that chat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agent-in-the-middle Agentic AI is de facto two things: a strong orchestration system coupled to 1 or more highly-capable LLMs. What an agent isn\u2019t is a straightforward interface, and it have to be viewed as a separate system able to autonomous, unpredictable reasoning. \u00a0 In actual fact, Okta threat intelligence director Jeremy Kirk identified, \u201cIt opens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2231,22190,17165,10713,1217,4018,51267,4434,3594,1529],"class_list":["post-327928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-agents","tag-bypass","tag-computerworld","tag-credentials","tag-finds","tag-guardrails","tag-okta","tag-put","tag-risk","tag-study"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327931,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327928\/revisions\/327931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}