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Cyber Risks · Cisco Talos

It’s not personal, it’s just business

Summary: Cisco Talos' Threat Source newsletter describes how agentic AI gives AI agents autonomy to interact with external systems, collect information, make decisions and effect changes through APIs within a defined workflow, bringing the same efficiencies to the cyber crime economy as to the legitimate one. The newsletter cites the publication of the first AI-orchestrated cyber campaign as a signal of a new era, while noting AI does not add new capabilities, can lower barriers for lower-skilled actors, and still requires human supervision because it gets things wrong and invents nonsense.

What's compelling: The first AI-orchestrated cyber campaign has already been publicly reported, and the same autonomy that lets an agent work with minimal supervision lets lower-skilled actors execute tasks they previously lacked the skills to perform.

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