Criminals Are Using AI Agents to Deploy and Manage Attack Infrastructure — Microsoft Threat Intel
The agentic AI capabilities the security community has been building are now being used by adversaries. Microsoft’s Global Threat Intelligence team confirmed this week that criminal groups and nation-state actors are deploying AI agents to autonomously handle attack operations — and the scale is accelerating. What Microsoft Is Seeing In a Thursday interview with The Register, Sherrod DeGrippo, Microsoft’s General Manager of Global Threat Intelligence, described a clear behavioral shift in how sophisticated adversaries operate: ...