Leading US banks have made a ‘horrifying’ discovery, uncovering evidence of unauthorized AI agents accessing customer accounts.

Companies and individuals alike have been deploying AI agents, giving users the ability to tap into agents to perform any number of tasks on their behalf. A popular task for AI agents is to handle financial matters. However, it appears that customers are unleashing their AI agents onto their bank accounts, despite those agents being unvetted and unauthorized.

According to Axios , some of the biggest banks in the US, including Bank of America, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and others, are racing to contain the risks, and some have detected unauthorized AI agents accessing customer accounts. In many cases, it appears the agents are using valid login information that the customers provided.…