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
Real-world scenarios that your existing tools cannot detect.
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
Anomalous behaviour identified and threat flagged before data leaves the environment: DETECTED.
Threat Sequence
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OpenClaw
open-source AI agentclick the lobsters →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 this class of threat , identifying malicious patterns that look indistinguishable from normal activity to conventional security tools.
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
An AI agent with legitimate access to your systems starts doing things it should not — reading sensitive files, moving data, or acting on behalf of an attacker using your own credentials.
Explore threat landscapeResource Hijacking
Your servers or cloud compute quietly get put to work for someone else — mining cryptocurrency, running botnets, or proxying traffic — while your bills rise and your systems slow down.
Explore threat landscapePlugin Supply Chain
A third-party AI plugin or extension your team installed gets compromised. Every developer or workflow that uses it is now exposed — without anyone touching your own code.
Explore threat landscapePrompt Injection
Hidden instructions embedded in a document, email, or webpage hijack your AI assistant mid-task — redirecting it to take actions your user never intended, often with no visible sign.
Explore threat landscapeAgent-Driven DDoS
Large numbers of compromised AI agents are coordinated to flood a target with requests — taking down websites, APIs, or services at a scale no human-run attack could match.
Explore threat landscapeData Exfiltration
Data quietly leaves your network through channels that look routine. By the time it is noticed, sensitive information — customer records, source code, credentials — is already outside.
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