Arkose Labs

News Summary:

On May 1, 2026, Arkose Labs COO Frank Teruel authored a feature article in Security Management, the monthly magazine of ASIS International, addressing how agentic AI is fundamentally changing the fraud landscape. Teruel argued that traditional bot detection approaches are now insufficient as legitimate and malicious AI agents have become technically indistinguishable, both using fake devices, synthetic browsers, and cloud infrastructure. Earlier the same day, an article titled "The Agentic AI Security Category Is Converging on the Wrong Answer" detailed the practical manifestations of agentic AI attacks, describing a digital factory model where agents commit fraud through autonomous iteration, session-to-session learning, and identity spoofing at the interaction layer, expanding on a previously described Part 1. Previously, on April 22, the company noted that many fraud and security teams discover their human fraud farm problems gradually, citing indicators such as elevated fake account rates, promotional budgets draining faster than acquisition numbers justify, and patterns of transactions that individually appear clean but collectively do not make sense. This followed an April 21 publication, "The Attack Runs Itself: What Agentic AI Fraud Actually Looks Like," which was introduced as Part 1 of a two-part series on agentic AI fraud defense, focusing on attack patterns and how autonomous systems probe defenses.