In numbers

Impact

Incidents publicly disclosed

Jul 25SepNovJan 26MarMayJulSepOct

Who found it first

32%found by someone other than the handler

  • The handler64%
  • Someone else25%
  • A vendor's control5%
  • Not disclosed5%

How it was caught

  • A later review18
  • The damage16
  • A control flagged it11
  • An outside report8
  • Not disclosed6

First incident action to disclosure

70days, the median of 43 with both dates

Handler found out to disclosure

20days, the median of 39 with both dates

Agent failures involved

Share of the 59 incidents, then the count. An incident can involve more than one failure.

  • Unauthorised access44%26
  • Sandbox escape25%15
  • Credential misuse24%14
  • Destructive action22%13
  • Data exfiltration17%10
  • Deceiving people15%9
  • Supply chain compromise12%7
  • Swarm coordination10%6
  • Prompt injection / context poisoning8%5
  • Resource abuse7%4
  • Hijacked by an attacker5%3
  • Self-planted instructions5%3
  • Untrusted code execution2%1

AI provider involved

Share of the 59 incidents, then the count. An incident can involve more than one provider.

  • OpenAI39%23
  • Anthropic32%19
  • Meta8%5
  • Google5%3
  • Amazon3%2
  • OpenClaw3%2
  • Replit2%1
  • Alibaba2%1
  • Cursor2%1
  • Amazon Web Services2%1
  • Instinct2%1

What is publicly known

92%of the core details about each agent setup are not fully publicly known

  • Who and what was affected22%
  • Root cause stated22%
  • Fix or change made19%
  • Task and messages given17%
  • Detection telemetry17%
  • Exact model and version12%
  • Guardrails and safety settings12%
  • Harness and tools available8%
  • Network and egress setup5%
  • System prompt3%
  • Reasoning or thinking setting0%
  • Transcripts or action logs published0%

Agent failures, by threat framework

  • OWASP Agentic Top 10106 of 116
  • MITRE ATLAS66 of 116
  • AARM threat model57 of 116

Threat categories, by framework

OWASP Agentic Top 10

  • ASI02 Tool Misuse & Exploitation38
  • ASI10 Rogue Agents18
  • ASI03 Identity & Privilege Abuse14

MITRE ATLAS

  • AML.T0049 Exploit Public-Facing Application26
  • AML.T0055 Unsecured Credentials14
  • AML.T0025 Exfiltration via Cyber Means10

AARM threat model

  • Intent Drift15
  • Over-Privileged Credentials14
  • Data Exfiltration via Action Composition10

Evidence status

Share of the 59 incidents, then the count. Confirmed: a primary source states it. Reported: tier-one coverage only. Disputed: sources disagree.

  • Confirmed58%34
  • Reported36%21
  • Disputed7%4

Impact

Share of the 59 incidents, then the count, from Major (harm that reached many people or a platform many depend on) to Contained (no outside party harmed). The scale is on the Methodology page.

  • Major7%4
  • Serious41%24
  • Moderate39%23
  • Contained14%8

How each figure is counted: Methodology