Agentic AI Is Now a Weapon: Flashpoint's 2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report
Every year the threat intelligence industry produces a report that crystallizes what defenders already suspected but couldn’t quite prove. Flashpoint’s 2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR) is this year’s version — and its central claim is blunt: agentic AI has crossed from criminal curiosity to deployed offensive infrastructure. This isn’t speculation. It’s sourced from Flashpoint’s Primary Source Collection (PSC), which monitors criminal forums, dark web markets, and adversarial communication channels in near-real-time. The signal they’re seeing is a rapid acceleration of AI-related discussions that started as curiosity and has hardened into active capability development. ...