2026 Threat Hunting Report<\/a> found that activity initiated by AI agents generated detection leads at 2.5 times the rate of human activity. The figure reflects leads identified through CrowdStrike\u2019s own telemetry between July 2025 and June 2026, not confirmed attacks, but it shows the growing volume of agent activity security teams now have to sort through.<\/p>\nDuring a media roundtable about the report, Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike\u2019s senior VP of counter adversary operations, explained how the company identifies agent activity by tracing it back through the process tree to tools such as Codex or Claude. Once an agent starts a task, CrowdStrike can trace commands, dependency downloads and other activity back to the agent that initiated them.<\/p>\n
Identifying the activity is one thing, but understanding what it means is harder. Meyers said CrowdStrike has seen legitimate AI tools take a different action when a security control blocks their initial attempt, not necessarily to evade detection, but because the agent treats the control as an obstacle to completing its assigned task.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m trying to do this, but the security tool got in my way, so I\u2019ll just go around it, right? The agent doesn\u2019t know that that\u2019s bad, or that it shouldn\u2019t do that,\u201d Meyers said. Each workaround can trigger additional detections, creating a cascading flow of events that security teams must sort through.<\/p>\n
The Agents of Chaos challenge will give defenders a controlled environment to practice turning an agent against its intended purpose. When that same behavior appears inside a live environment, authorized access can make manipulated activity seem routine. The game may be fictional, but the skills it requires are quickly becoming part of security teams\u2019 daily work.<\/p>\n
Frequently Asked QuestionsWhat is AI Unlocked: Agents of Chaos?<\/p>\n
It is a virtual cybersecurity game created by CrowdStrike in collaboration with Amazon Web Services. Participants manipulate live AI agents to stop a fictional group from deploying malicious AI.<\/p>\n
How much prize money is available?<\/p>\n
CrowdStrike is offering $100,000 across three acts: $10,000 for the first, $20,000 for the second and $70,000 for the final act.<\/p>\n
When does the competition take place?<\/p>\n
The competition begins Aug. 31. The first act ends Sept. 7, the second ends Sept. 14 and the final act runs from Sept. 15 through Sept. 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TL;DR \u2014 Key Takeaways CrowdStrike is offering $100,000 in total prizes through an international competition focused on AI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[179,405,65842,7537,330,313,8922],"class_list":["post-132113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-agentic-ai","tag-agentic-ai","tag-ai-agents","tag-ai-unlocked-agents-of-chaos","tag-artificial-intelligence-agents","tag-crowdstrike","tag-cybersecurity","tag-red-teaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}