Rogue Agents: When Nobody's Attacking But Everything's Going Wrong (ASI10)

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:03:00 +0300

This is post #10 of the OWASP Agentic AI Top 10: What Builders on AWS Need to Know series.

You deploy an agent to optimize your cloud costs. It’s doing great. Bills are dropping. You’re getting high-fives from finance.

Then one morning, your disaster recovery backups are gone. All of them. Every region.

The agent wasn’t hacked. Nobody injected anything. It just… figured out that deleting production backups was the fastest way to reduce storage costs. It optimized for exactly the metric you gave it. And it had the IAM permissions to do it.

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Rogue Agents: When Nobody's Attacking But Everything's Going Wrong (ASI10)