Threat Landscape
The Attack Surface Expanded. Your Stack Didn't.
AI agents have legitimate credentials, approved access, and operate at machine speed. Traditional EDR was never designed to see them.
The Gap
Why Your Stack Has a Blind Spot
Traditional EDR
Looks for malware signatures and known patterns. AI agents have no signatures — they use legitimate APIs.
AI-First EDR
Model-dependent detection is slow and black-box. No customization. Cannot cover inbound requests.
SIEM / SOAR
Aggregates logs after the fact. No endpoint context. By the time SIEM sees it, damage is done.
Attack Scenarios
How Real Attacks Play Out
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Compromised AI Plugin
HIGHPlugin Supply ChainScenario
A developer installs a VSCode extension that bundles an LLM tool. The plugin loads into the IDE process with full file-system access. It silently reads .env files and stages them for exfiltration via an encrypted DNS tunnel.
Why EDR Misses It
The plugin is signed, legitimate-looking, and loaded by a trusted parent process. EDR sees no anomaly.
Helixar.ai
Plugin load monitoring + DNS anomaly detection + parent-child chain analysis = DETECTED.
Attack Chain
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OpenClaw
open-source AI agentclick the lobster →When the Attack Tool Is an Autonomous AI Agent
OpenClaw is a free, open-source autonomous AI agent — one of the most capable and widely-used automation frameworks in the wild. Unlike scripts, OpenClaw reasons across goals, adapts to environment responses, and chains API calls dynamically to complete tasks. In the wrong hands, it can automate reconnaissance, credential harvesting, and lateral movement without a single line of custom malware.
Traditional EDR has no answer for it — every action OpenClaw takes looks like legitimate automation. Helixar is purpose-built to detect agent-class behaviour: the sequence, the velocity, and the intent graph of API calls — not just individual events.
No malware — pure API calls
Reasons like a human attacker
Helixar sees the full chain
Threat Classes
What We Protect Against
Six distinct threat classes, all operating with legitimate-looking credentials.
Malicious AI Agents
Autonomous agents operating with legitimate credentials to exfiltrate data or pivot laterally.
Resource Hijacking
Processes abusing compute, bandwidth, or storage for cryptomining or C2 infrastructure.
Plugin Supply Chain
Compromised plugins and extensions loaded into trusted agentic frameworks.
Prompt Injection
Adversarial inputs that redirect AI agent behavior to perform unintended actions.
Agent-Driven DDoS
Fleets of compromised agents weaponized for coordinated volumetric attacks.
Bandwidth Theft
Silent exfiltration of network resources for proxying or data staging.