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AI Agents Are Rewriting the Rules of Lateral Movement

The Hacker News · article · Sep 22, 2026 · UTC

Security teams have spent decades asking whether an identity has too much access. AI agents raise a harder question: how can we determine which paths an autonomous system can discover, given the access it already has? A person may try several ways to complete a task. A deterministic application follows the flow its developer wrote. But an AI agent is relentless in its pursuit of done. In May

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First collected: 2026-09-22T16:42:13.702Z. This is not the publication date.