Agentic AI is compressing attacker intrusion timelines to minutes
Artificial intelligence has moved from a curiosity in the threat landscape to a working part of the intrusion, and agentic adversaries have infiltrated extortion campaigns, espionage operations and hacktivist activity alike. The speed of the tooling, more than any novel attack technique, is what leaves defenders far less time to respond.
That shift is measurable, not theoretical. Security teams that spent last year debating whether attackers would adopt AI are now watching them run entire operations with it, according to Adam Meyers (pictured), senior vice president of intelligence at CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.
“The stat that’s most interesting is we had something like 26 agentic adversaries that we were tracking in the last 30 days. That’s more than we were tracking in the year before that,” Meyers said. “REVENANT SPIDER is a group that we were tracking that was using an agent in the intrusion. AI agents are now part of ransomware operations.”
Meyers spoke with theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Rebecca Knight at Fal.Con, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed agentic adversaries, intrusion speed and the Sality botnet takedown. (* Disclosure below.)
