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

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.