VectorCertain Validates 100% Detection Rate Against AI-Powered Credential Theft in New MYTHOS Testing
VectorCertain LLC announced validation results showing its SecureAgent platform detected and prevented all 839 credential theft attempts in adversarial testing, including HSM key extraction and SWIFT token compromise.
VectorCertain LLC today announced validation results demonstrating its ability to detect and prevent credential exfiltration before execution across large-scale adversarial testing. The company tested 1,000 scenarios across seven sub-categories of credential theft, including HSM key extraction, SWIFT token compromise, and bulk credential harvesting, achieving 100% recall with zero false negatives.
The findings come as the Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report identified stolen credentials as the number one initial access vector for the second consecutive year. According to the report, 88% of web application breaches involved stolen credentials, and infostealers compromised 30% of corporate-managed devices. The financial sector faces particular risk, with the average data breach costing $5.56 million and 90% of breaches carrying a financial motive, as reported by Help Net Security.
VectorCertain's T5 validation tested AI agents powered by Anthropic's Claude API across scenarios including HSM key extraction, SWIFT token compromise, OAuth token theft, and credential forwarding. The company's SecureAgent platform blocked all 839 credential theft attempts before any credential left the governed environment, with a specificity of 97.5% and only four false positives across 1,000 scenarios. The results were validated at a 3-sigma confidence level using the Clopper-Pearson exact binomial method across 7,000 total scenarios.
"Credentials are the atomic unit of financial crime," said Joseph P. Conroy, Founder and CEO of VectorCertain LLC. "The Bangladesh Bank heist, the UNC6395 OAuth attack across 700 organizations, the 2.3 million bank logins for sale on the dark web right now. Every one of these began with stolen credentials. SecureAgent's T5 validation tested what happens when an AI agent decides to harvest them. Eight hundred thirty-nine attempts. Zero credentials exfiltrated."
The validation highlights structural failures in traditional endpoint detection and response systems. MITRE's ER7 evaluation confirmed 0% identity attack protection across all nine evaluated vendors. SecureAgent's five-layer governance pipeline evaluates credential access before it enters the agent's context window, classifying credential infrastructure access as suspect and detecting bulk harvesting patterns in under 10 milliseconds.
VectorCertain's 55-patent portfolio protects its pre-execution credential governance approach, including patents for epistemic trust evaluation, credential-integrity classification, and trust score anomaly detection. The company's SecureAgent platform has also demonstrated conformance with all 230 control objectives of the CRI Financial Services AI Risk Management Framework.
The T5 validation is part of VectorCertain's 17-part MYTHOS Threat Intelligence Series, which tests detection and prevention capabilities against Anthropic's Mythos threat vectors. The company offers a free Tier A External Exposure Report to help organizations discover exposed credentials and coverage gaps.