88% of Teams Had an Agent Security Incident Last Year. Red-Teaming Is a Data Problem, Not a Tooling One.
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Prompt injection is now the number one security threat to AI systems, and the attack volume backing that claim is not subtle: reports this year point to a roughly 340% year-over-year increase in injection attacks against deployed agents. Pair that with a stat from AvePoint's 2026 State of AI report — 88.4% of organizations experienced at least one agent-related security incident in the past year — and a picture emerges that most engineering teams are quietly living with. We shipped agents that…
1Key Takeaways
- Prompt injection is now the number one security threat to AI systems, and the attack volume backing that claim is not subtle: reports this year point to a roughly 340% year-over-year increase in injection attacks against deployed agents.
- Pair that with a stat from AvePoint's 2026 State of AI report — 88.4% of organizations experienced at least one agent-related security incident in the past year — and a picture emerges that most engineering teams are quietly living with.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that prompt injection is now the number one security threat to AI systems, and the attack volume backing that claim is not subtle: reports this year point to a roughly 340% year-over-year increase in injection attacks against deployed agents.
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