Technologyreview posted an interesting article about how threat actors will eventually be leaning heavily on AI Agents to launch attacks. The post can be found HERE.
Here is a key point “At present, cybercriminals are not deploying AI agents to hack at scale. But researchers have demonstrated that agents are capable of executing complex attacks (Anthropic, for example, observed its Claude LLM successfully replicating an attack designed to steal sensitive information), and cybersecurity experts warn that we should expect to start seeing these types of attacks spilling over into the real world.”
Basically, all of the ingredients are there for agents to launch sophisticated attacks. Some AI will have abuse detection in place however many will not care about “responsible AI principles” hence will be leveraged to perform malicious tasks. AI agents are here and the future for both threat actors and defenders. This cat and mouse game isn’t new.