AI/ML Cybersecurity professionals cite agentic AI, LLMs, and cloud infrastructure breaches as top concerns July 1, 2026 Share By SC Staff As reported by Channel Insider, a recent annual report by Bitdefender highlights the most pressing concerns, challenges, and threat perceptions among IT and security professionals. The 2026 Cybersecurity Assessment Report surveyed over 1,200 professionals across six countries. Findings indicate that internal AI systems and large language models (LLMs) are the primary environmental concerns for 45% of respondents, followed closely by cloud infrastructure and applications at 44%. In the past 12 months, 41.8% of respondents experienced cloud infrastructure or application breaches, with business email compromise (BEC) incidents affecting 35.9% and ransomware impacting 25.6%. Notably, U.S. organizations reported a higher incidence of BEC at 54.7%. AI-driven social engineering attacks were confirmed by 59.2% of all respondents. The top AI-driven threat identified is attackers using AI for self-mutating malware (55.9%), followed by sensitive data leaks into public LLMs (53.5%) and AI-driven evasion techniques bypassing traditional endpoint detection and response (EDR) (52.5%). Agentic AI is also expanding the attack surface, particularly in Singapore and the U.S. Organizations face challenges in reducing their attack surface due to high overhead in maintaining hardening rules (38%), fear of operational disruption (35.4%), and resource constraints (34.6%). Furthermore, 76.1% of respondents would consider switching vendors due to data sovereignty concerns, and nearly half lack full visibility into shadow AI tools and personal work accounts. Source: Channel Insider An In-Depth Guide to AI Get essential knowledge and practical strategies to use AI to better your security program. Learn More SC Staff Related AI/ML Shell injection flaw found in 10 of 11 open-source AI agents SC Staff July 1, 2026 The GuardFall vulnerability stems from a fundamental mismatch between how security filters inspect commands and how the Bash shell interprets and executes them. AI/ML Exabeam expands security platform to monitor AI agents SC Staff July 1, 2026 The new features aim to flag anomalous interactions between humans and AI agents, as well as unauthorized autonomous activity. AI/ML Norton’s scam detection tool now available in Claude and ChatGPT SC Staff July 1, 2026 Norton Genie can analyze suspicious emails, texts, messages, images and links using multi-layered detection intelligence. Get daily email updates SC Media's daily must-read of the most current and pressing daily news Business Email By clicking the Subscribe button below, you agree to SC Media Terms of Use and Privacy Policy . Subscribe You can skip this ad in 5 seconds