{"id":237011,"date":"2026-04-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/the-race-is-on-to-keep-ai-agents-from-running-wild-with-your-credit-cards\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:20:12","slug":"the-race-is-on-to-keep-ai-agents-from-running-wild-with-your-credit-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/the-race-is-on-to-keep-ai-agents-from-running-wild-with-your-credit-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-race-is-on-to-keep-ai-agents-from-running-wild-with-your-credit-cards\/\">The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit Cards<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-race-is-on-to-keep-ai-agents-from-running-wild-with-your-credit-cards\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-race-is-on-to-keep-ai-agents-from-running-wild-with-your-credit-cards\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-28 09:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wired.com\">www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">Between malware, online<\/span> impersonation, and account takeovers, there are enough digital security problems out there as it is. And with the rise of agentic AI, more activity is being carried out by agents on behalf of humans\u2014creating different risks that something could go awry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Now, working with initial contributions from Google and Mastercard, the authentication-focused industry association known as the FIDO Alliance said on Tuesday that it will launch a pair of working groups to develop industry standards for validating and protecting payments and other transactions carried out by AI agents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The goal is to produce a protective baseline that can be adopted across industries. This way, users can authorize agent actions using mechanisms that can&#8217;t easily be phished, or taken over by a bad actor to give an agent rogue instructions. The standards would also include cryptographic tools that digital services could use to confirm agents are accurately and legitimately carrying out an authenticated person&#8217;s instructions, as well as privacy preserving frameworks to give users, merchants, and other service providers the ability to validate transactions being initiated by agents. In other words, the goal of the work is to create protections against agent hijacking or other rogue behavior, as well as transparency and accountability mechanism for recourse in the event of a dispute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cAgents are becoming more and more common, they&#8217;re moving into mainstream use, but preexisting models aren\u2019t necessarily designed for this sort of paradigm\u2014they weren&#8217;t built to contemplate actions performed on a user\u2019s behalf,\u201d Andrew Shikiar, CEO of the FIDO Alliance, tells WIRED.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">He adds, \u201cIf we look back on our work in recent years on the massive problem space of passwords, that originated decades ago. The security foundation for what became our connected economy wasn\u2019t fit for purpose. Now we\u2019re at a similar precipice with agentic agents and agentic interactions, agentic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-race-is-on-to-keep-ai-agents-from-running-wild-with-your-credit-cards\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit Cards&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/69ef5ffea87ec1fab4d8a468\/191:100\/w_1280,c_limit\/GettyImages-1223459427.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,32],"class_list":["post-237011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-malware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237013,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237011\/revisions\/237013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}