A security scan found 18,000 AI agents inside one company.
CrowdStrike told its own conference last week that one customer had approved 300 AI agents. Its new scanner found 18,000 of them running on staff computers, most never cleared by anyone. The firm would not say how many of the extra 17,700 were installed without permission.
Why it mattersEvery agent on a work laptop can read files and run commands using your account. Nobody can defend software that the security team does not know is there.
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