$45M Gone: How AI Agent Exploits Defined Q1 2026 — And What We Built to Stop the Next One
The numbers are in from Q1 2026: over $45 million lost to AI agent security incidents. Not to traditional smart contract exploits. Not to phishing. To autonomous AI agents with no spend controls, no behavioral monitoring, and no kill switch. This is not a story about bad actors being clever. It's a story about infrastructure that was never built.The Four Systemic FailuresNo per-agent identity 45.6% of exploited setups used shared API keys. When one agent is compromised, everything is compromi...
$45M Gone: How AI Agent Exploits Defined Q1 2026 — And What We Built to Stop the Next One
The numbers are in from Q1 2026: over $45 million lost to AI agent security incidents. Not to traditional smart contract exploits. Not to phishing. To autonomous AI agents with no spend controls, no behavioral monitoring, and no kill switch. This is not a story about bad actors being clever. It's a story about infrastructure that was never built.The Four Systemic FailuresNo per-agent identity 45.6% of exploited setups used shared API keys. When one agent is compromised, everything is compromi...
