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1.8 Million APKs Later, We Should Talk About What "AI Agent" Actually Means in a Threat Model

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Someone pointed an AI agent at 1.8 million Android apps, scanned them for secrets, and did it fast enough that the operational bottleneck was never the hacking. It was whatever came before and after. That's the part worth sitting with. Context Scanning APKs for hardcoded API keys and leaked credent…

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  1. 2026-09-13 11:55 · DEV Community — AI
    1.8 Million APKs Later, We Should Talk About What "AI Agent" Actually Means in a Threat Model

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