Threat-Intelligence

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47% of CISOs Cite Agentic AI as Top Attack Vector as 2026 Threat Landscape Shifts to Machine Speed

The security industry has spent years warning about AI-powered threats in abstract terms. Flashpoint’s 2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report drops the abstraction: 47% of cybersecurity professionals now identify agentic AI as their top attack surface — and only 29% have deployed any countermeasures. That gap — 47% concerned, 29% prepared — is the most important number in the report. What the Report Found Flashpoint is a threat intelligence firm with significant data access across the criminal and state-sponsored threat ecosystem. Their annual Global Threat Intelligence Report is one of the more credible annual security surveys, drawing on both proprietary threat data and professional surveys. ...

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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. ...

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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: ...