{"id":8585,"date":"2026-06-23T17:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/fake-ai-agent-skill-passed-security-scans-and-reportedly-reached-26000-agents\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:13:20","slug":"fake-ai-agent-skill-passed-security-scans-and-reportedly-reached-26000-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/fake-ai-agent-skill-passed-security-scans-and-reportedly-reached-26000-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake AI Agent Skill Passed Security Scans and Reportedly Reached 26,000 Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bSecurity firm\u00a0AIR\u00a0built a fake AI agent skill, pushed it through a popular skill marketplace and an Instagram ad, and says it reached roughly 26,000 agents, including some on corporate accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Every skill security scanner the firm tested it against marked it safe. The payload was harmless by design: it collected the user&#8217;s email address and did nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>The point was to show\u00a0Security firm\u00a0AIR\u00a0built a fake AI agent skill, pushed it through a popular skill marketplace and an Instagram ad, and says it reached roughly 26,000 agents, including some on corporate accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Every skill security scanner the firm tested it against marked it safe. The payload was harmless by design: it collected the user&#8217;s email address and did nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>The point was to show\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bSecurity firm\u00a0AIR\u00a0built a fake AI agent skill, pushed it through a popular skill marketplace and an Instagram ad, and says it reached roughly 26,000 agents, including some on corporate accounts. Every skill security scanner the firm tested it against marked it safe. The payload was harmless by design: it collected the user&#8217;s email address and&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/fake-ai-agent-skill-passed-security-scans-and-reportedly-reached-26000-agents\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fake AI Agent Skill Passed Security Scans and Reportedly Reached 26,000 Agents<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}