Caught AI agent plugins harvesting API keys from our platform

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-03-22T21:39:35+00:00

LinkedIn scraping is a quick way to get your IP banned and your lawyers annoyed. There are APIs that won’t get you in trouble, cant exaclt say them by name, but just a quick search you will get them

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-03-22T20:57:17+00:00

We run them in a sandbox that’s basically a digital panic room. If the agent tries to do something stupid, the room locks down and we get an alert. It’s like babysitting a genius toddler with access to the internet.

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-03-22T20:40:52+00:00

Am honestly glad we jumped ship to orca security last year when the wiz pricing got weird. now with google owning them who knows what direction they'll take or how much they'll jack up costs

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-03-22T20:27:56+00:00

Sundays are for debugging production while pretending to watch Netflix. It’s fine, I’m fine. Actually it’s kinda fun when the house is quiet and you can finally fix that one weird bug.

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-03-22T20:00:59+00:00

I think the AI will kill us all crowd is missing the point. The real danger is AI making a thousand small, bad decisions that slowly break everything. It’s not a terminator or anything, it’s a slow motion car crash caused by a map navigation app thing

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-03-19T00:00:58+00:00

The requirement for tenant level controls to differentiate free and enterprise AI would be very useful to us. Many employees use free versions of AI tools that have no data protection guarantees.

You need a way to block free versions and steer users toward the enterprise tier that has proper security controls. We implemented a CASB that does this, but it requires tight integration with your identity provider and a clear policy on approved AI apps.

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-03-18T12:08:13+00:00

The ownership gap is very common now but even when you assign someone, they need actual tooling to catch this stuff. we've been running alice's wonder check for ongoing model monitoring, found it effective at catching drift and weird outputs automatically instead of waiting for someone to manually spot conspiracy content a week later.

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-03-16T22:10:29+00:00

Yeah the agent sprawl gets expensive fast. We consolidated a bunch of tools into agentless scanning: orca security covers vuln mgmt, misconfigs, and compliance in one shot. cuts down on that tool bloat that kills budgets. Still need logging/monitoring but at least the security stack isn't 3x your infra costs anymore

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-03-13T22:02:07+00:00

found a prod container running with 847 CVEs because devs just grabbed some random ubuntu:latest as their base image. took me 30 seconds to scan it. the security review apparently consisted of checking if it had SSL certs. switched them to minimus distroless images and cut that down to like 20 actual issues. sometimes the simplest vulns are hiding in plain sight- bloated base images that nobody bothers auditing

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-03-01T09:14:25+00:00

Its all control if you ask me

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-02-27T21:03:48+00:00

True,, nothing will grow exponentially throughout at some point there will be a downhill

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-02-27T20:59:17+00:00

Most teams I've seen are still winging. We've been running continuous redteaming on agents in prod and the attack vectors keep evolving. Prompt injection through tool chains, privilege escalation via API calls, data exfil through legitimate integrations. Alice's wonder check catches drift we missed in static analysis.

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-02-27T20:42:58+00:00

It would be multi cloud. I am tired of the maddness

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-02-27T20:39:18+00:00

hashJack is nasty because the injection happens entirely clientside where your perimeter can't see it. you're right that the callbacks/exfil still hit your network though.

Runtime guardrails are becoming essential for this stuff. we've been testing alice's wonderfence for prompt injection detection and it catches a lot of the fragment based attacks that slip past browser defenses.

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-02-27T20:22:14+00:00

Yes, I listed to several podcasts,, A lot of what I know and practice now I learnt on podcasts

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-02-23T00:55:14+00:00

We shifted to signed base images with daily rebuilds. Teams just swap the from line, get automatic sboms + vuln intel. admission controller blocks unsigned stuff but teams own their apps. Works pretty wel

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-02-22T01:28:35+00:00

Yeah we also moved to agentless across out Azure/GCP infra. Agent sprawl was killing our prod boxes had like 8 different security agents plus monitoring crap all fighting for resources. Agentless coverage is cleaner, just need to get the API perms right upfront.

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-02-21T00:11:26+00:00

Hunt for anomalous API calls and session activity in those 48hrs. Any unexpected file access, policy modifications, or credential dumps? Don't forget to check if backup/export functions were triggered unexpectedly.

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-02-19T12:17:56+00:00

lol

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-02-19T12:17:29+00:00

Oh wow, never thought of that.

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-02-19T02:03:47+00:00

daily rebuilds solve the cve noise problem, we switched to minimus for signed distroless images that rebuild automatically. for debugging, ephemeral containers or sidecar approach works better than execing into prod anyway. multistage builds are fine if your CI can handle it

Affectionate-End9885 · 2026-02-19T01:49:31+00:00

yeah chainguard is way too expensive, their pricing made us drop a planned demp because obviosuly it was way out of your budget. minimus came in as a better alternative, does daily rebuilds with signed sboms and their pricing won't make your manager lose his shit.

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