# Vendor study finds AI-related SOC alerts up 685% but almost all noise

_Saturday, September 12, 2026 at 6:24 AM EDT · Security, AI · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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A security vendor's review of roughly 16.9 million enterprise SOC alerts found about 73,000, or 0.43%, were tied to AI tools and agents, with that volume up 685% between February and June 2026.

The vendor sorted the AI-related alerts and reported 94.1% were noise, 5.8% genuine risk and 0.02% real attacks. It said the real attacks it observed rode on AI branding in phishing lures rather than compromising an organization's own agent, and that permission-bypass flags on coding agents were the largest source of false positives.

## Sources

- [The Hacker News](https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/when-whole-company-adopts-ai-what-it.html)

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