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title: State of AI Cybersecurity: harness-layer attack proposals up 175% (12 → 33), March to October | ctxsec
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published: 2026-10-13
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2026-10-13

### State of AI Cybersecurity: harness-layer attack proposals up 175% (12 → 33), March to October

Rob T. Lee and Indre Altman compared the [un]prompted AI Security Practitioner Conference CFP rounds: 469 submissions in March and 490 in October. Harness-layer attack proposals rose from 12 to 33. 94 submissions used the word 'harness'. 71% of the October pool is agent-native (harness, MCP and skill supply chain, agent identity, prompt injection, agentic-browser attacks). Only 12% carry production evidence. Caveat: this is a CFP census, not incident data. The full report is linked from the conference site; we've only verified the figures quoted in the author's post.

Sources: [Rob T. Lee on X](https://x.com/robtlee/status/2110127235349008754) · [[un]prompted conference](https://unpromptedcon.org)