80% of Banks Have Already Faced Agentic AI Attacks, According to BioCatch Survey
By Adonis Adoni
AI summary of the source article
A BioCatch survey found that 80% of surveyed banking professionals reported their institutions have faced attacks using agentic AI. In response to emerging risks, BioCatch launched AiRE, a capability designed to detect AI agents before money moves.
Why it matters
"Whether banks plan to block all agents, grant access to only certain, pre-approved agents, or open the floodgates and allow any agent to access their platforms, those institutions must be able to first reliably detect whether the entity controlling a session is a human or an agent and if the intent of that entity is genuine or malicious,"
Key facts
- A BioCatch survey of 1,440 bank professionals across 25 countries found 80% have encountered attacks using agentic AI.
- 84% of respondents viewed AI agents as the industry’s greatest exploitable vulnerability over the coming year.
- BioCatch introduced AiRE to detect AI agents and surface behavioral anomalies such as synthetic inputs and unusual interaction patterns.
Source excerpt · Finance Magnates
Behavioral-biometrics firm BioCatch has highlighted the growing challenge financial institutions face in distinguishing legitimate customers, authorised AI assistants and malicious automation. Its 2026 survey of 1,440 fraud-management, AML, and risk-and-compliance professionals at banks in 25 countries found that 80% of respondents said their institutions had already encountered attacks using agen…