Enterprises have worked for years to improve detection and response times in the face of increasingly sophisticated attacks that relied on manual hacking and living-of-the-land techniques. AI is now threatening to undo those efforts.
An increasing number of threat actors are automating all phases of attacks, including lateral movement by using LLM-powered agents, severely reducing the time from initial access to deep environment compromises.
“The real shift is speed, scale, and orchestration: familiar cloud attack techniques were executed faster and across more surfaces than defenders could comfortably contain,” wrote researchers from security firm Sygnia last week in a report about an AI-as...