Orphaned AI Agents: How to Find Hidden Access Risks Inside Your Network

Orphaned AI Agents: How to Find Hidden Access Risks Inside Your Network The Hacker NewsJun 18, 2026AI Security / Data Security If an autonomous AI agent interacts with your company's core intellectual property today, can your security team instantly name the person who authorized it? For most enterprises, the answer is a simple no. The rush to adopt internal AI tools has left a massive trail of administrative debt: orphaned agents (AI tools left running after their creator leaves the company) and standing privileges (AI that retains permanent, unrestricted access it no longer needs). When an employee moves on, the automated tools they built stay active—often keeping unmonitored access to sensitive databases and source code long after the human’s credentials are revoked. To help security teams bridge this line of accountability, The Hacker News is hosting a technical briefing. Secure your spot today for the live webinar: Orphaned Agents & Standing Privileges: The Hidden Access Risks of Internal AI. Why Existing Security Tools Miss the Signal Traditional access tools treat AI like standard software. But AI does not stay static; it continuously pulls, shifts, and interacts with data on its own. A standard security filter sees an AI tool pull an entire repository and assumes the application is just doing its job. It cannot see that the employee who originally spun up that tool left the company last week. The system cannot judge whether the action is malicious because it doesn't know whose identity the agent is borrowing. Trying to secure an AI tool by itself does not work. Finding these hidden scripts is only half the problem; you still have to map them back to a living owner. Register now to look at the plumbing required to unify human, machine, and AI identities under one control plane. What the Session Covers This technical deep dive skips the AI marketing hype to focus on practical architecture: The identity gap: Why securing an AI tool in isolation fails if you do not know whose credentials it is running on. Finding Shadow AI: A step-by-step walkthrough to track down undocumented tools active on your network right now. Deployment reality: How to get immediate visibility into enterprise AI use without adding network infrastructure bottlenecks. The developer who built the automation may have left months ago, but the access token hasn’t. Join SailPoint and The Hacker News to learn how to revoke access before an attacker uses it for you. 📅 Save Your Spot Today: Register for the Webinar Here. Found this article interesting? This article is a contributed piece from one of our valued partners. Follow us on Google News, Twitter and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post. SHARE     Tweet Share Share SHARE  AI Security, API Security, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity webinar, data security, Identity Security, Machine Identity, SailPoint ⚡ Top Stories This Week Researchers Build Self-Replicating AI Worm That Operates Entirely on Local, Open-Weight Models Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5, Its Most Powerful AI Yet, With Cyber Safeguards China-Linked Hackers Backdoored Linux Login Software to Hide for Nearly a Decade Ivanti, Fortinet, and SAP Release Patches for Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities Microsoft Patches Record 206 Flaws, Including Three Zero-Days and Critical RCE Bugs Microsoft Defender RoguePlanet Zero-Day Grants SYSTEM Access on Updated Windows New GreatXML Exploit Bypasses Windows BitLocker via Recovery Partition XML Files Critical Splunk Enterprise Flaw Lets Attackers Run Code Without Authentication Agentjacking Attack Tricks AI Coding Agents Into Running Malicious Code Over 400 Arch Linux AUR Packages Hijacked to Deploy Infostealer and eBPF Rootkit Palo Alto Warns of Active Exploitation of PAN-OS GlobalProtect VPN Flaw U.S. Orders Anthropic to Suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Access for Foreign Nationals ⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Day, UniFi Exploits, macOS Stealers, VPN Flaw and More ThreatsDay Bulletin: Worm Code Leaked, AI Agent Phished, Claude Code Patch + 28 New Stories Chrome V8 Zero-Day CVE-2026-11645 Exploited in the Wild - Patch Now Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026: Winners Announced Across 95 Categories Load More ▼ ⭐ Featured Resources Have You Outgrown Your MDR? 7 Warning Signs Every CISO Should Check AI Can’t Stop Every Attack. Learn How Zero Trust Can Block What’s Unknown [Watch Demo] See Which Security Gaps Attackers Could Exploit First Get the 2026 Guide to Govern and Secure Enterprise AI Agents at Scale