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Agentic AI is giving cyber criminals nation-state-like powers

Pentagon leaders say agentic AI tools compress weeks of work into hours, but the same tools are opening new frontiers of digital crime and changing the very nature of cybersecurity.

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Agentic AI is giving cyber criminals nation-state-like powers
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  • The Pentagon's GenAI.mil platform deploys agentic AI tools that compress two-week tasks into three hours.
  • Agentic AI like Mythos can find and patch vulnerabilities automatically but also introduce new security challenges.
  • Experts warn that criminals will use AI to mimic state-backed hackers, conducting long-term stealth and lateral movement attacks.
  • Current AI vulnerability patching solutions cannot defend against novel attacks, requiring new defense methods.

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