paperMay 2026Unreviewed

The End of Trust: How Agentic AI Breaks Security Assumptions

Osama Zafar, Alexander Nemecek, Erman Ayday

Abstract

For decades, the security of digital interaction has rested on an unacknowledged economic constraint. Attackers faced a tradeoff between the fidelity of a deception and the scale at which it could be deployed. Convincing impersonation required sustained human effort and was confined to a narrow set of high-value targets, while mass-market attacks sacrificed plausibility for reach. Detection systems, verification mechanisms, and user awareness training have all been implicitly calibrated to the a

Cite

@misc{zafar2026end,
  title = {{The End of Trust: How Agentic AI Breaks Security Assumptions}},
  author = {Osama Zafar and Alexander Nemecek and Erman Ayday},
  year = {2026},
  month = may,
  eprint = {2605.16436},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16436}
}