AI Skills Exposed as New Attack Surface for Data Theft and Sabotage
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TrendAI has identified AI skills, which combine human-readable text with LLM-executable instructions, as a dangerous new attack surface. These skills, used to scale AI operations, pose risks of data theft, sabotage, and disruption. Attackers exploiting these skills could access sensitive organizational data and decision-making logic, leading to potential breaches in various sectors. The risks are particularly acute for AI-enabled SOCs, where injection attacks and detection blind spots are major concerns. TrendAI recommends an eight-phase kill chain model to detect and mitigate threats from unstructured text data, emphasizing the need for skills integrity monitoring and anomaly detection.
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12.02.2026 12:45 1 articles · 12h ago
TrendAI Warns of AI Skills as New Attack Surface
TrendAI has identified AI skills as a dangerous new attack surface, posing risks of data theft, sabotage, and disruption. The report outlines an eight-phase kill chain model to detect and mitigate threats from unstructured text data in AI skills, emphasizing the need for skills integrity monitoring and anomaly detection.
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- AI Skills Represent Dangerous New Attack Surface, Says TrendAI — www.infosecurity-magazine.com — 12.02.2026 12:45
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AI skills encapsulate human expertise, workflows, operational constraints, and decision logic, enabling scalability and knowledge transfer.
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- AI Skills Represent Dangerous New Attack Surface, Says TrendAI — www.infosecurity-magazine.com — 12.02.2026 12:45
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Examples of AI skills include Anthropic’s Agent Skills, GPT Actions by OpenAI, and Copilot Plugin by Microsoft.
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- AI Skills Represent Dangerous New Attack Surface, Says TrendAI — www.infosecurity-magazine.com — 12.02.2026 12:45
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Exploiting AI skills can lead to data theft, sabotage, and disruption of public services, manufacturing processes, and patient data.
First reported: 12.02.2026 12:451 source, 1 articleShow sources
- AI Skills Represent Dangerous New Attack Surface, Says TrendAI — www.infosecurity-magazine.com — 12.02.2026 12:45
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AI-enabled SOCs are particularly vulnerable to injection attacks due to the ambiguity between genuine analyst instructions and attacker-supplied content.
First reported: 12.02.2026 12:451 source, 1 articleShow sources
- AI Skills Represent Dangerous New Attack Surface, Says TrendAI — www.infosecurity-magazine.com — 12.02.2026 12:45
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TrendAI recommends an eight-phase kill chain model for detecting and mitigating threats from unstructured text data in AI skills.
First reported: 12.02.2026 12:451 source, 1 articleShow sources
- AI Skills Represent Dangerous New Attack Surface, Says TrendAI — www.infosecurity-magazine.com — 12.02.2026 12:45