September 2026

As agentic AI adoption accelerates, malicious AI skills are emerging as a new enterprise threat vector, enabling credential theft, malware deployment, and unauthorized code execution.

In this interview, Tony Anscombe, Chief Security Evangelist at ESET, explores how AI agents are reshaping the threat landscape and what organizations must do to secure them. Anscombe discusses the growing risks of shadow AI, evolving social engineering tactics, and the importance of balancing AI innovation with effective governance.

Key takeaways include:

• How malicious AI skills can enable credential theft, malware delivery, and unauthorized code execution.
• Why agentic AI is expanding the enterprise attack surface and introducing new security challenges.
• The importance of balancing AI governance with innovation to prevent shadow AI adoption.
• How evolving ClickFix attacks continue to successfully target users through sophisticated social engineering techniques.
• Why AI behavioral monitoring, AI conversation security, and AI agent security are becoming critical layers of modern cyber defense.

Read more to learn how organizations can safely embrace agentic AI while protecting against emerging threats from malicious AI skills, shadow AI, and increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.