Cybersecurity

An AI-assisted cyberattack has raised a worrying question for security teams: how quickly could AI agents help an attacker move from an initial foothold to deep access across an enterprise network? In a recent Unit 42 investigation, Palo Alto Networks reported that an attacker used frontier AI and agentic AI frameworks to compress an intrusion … Read more

Ransomware attacks have always depended on speed. The faster an attacker can understand a network, find valuable credentials and move toward critical systems, the less time defenders have to react.Now, AI agents could make that process significantly faster. A recent investigation by Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 found an attacker using frontier AI and agentic … Read more