Artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping digital defense not by creating entirely novel threats, but by massively accelerating familiar ones like phishing, malware, and network scanning. Threat actors can now leverage automated tools to conduct reconnaissance and exploit software vulnerabilities at unprecedented machine speed. At the same time, the cost and technical barriers to launching sophisticated attacks have plummeted near zero, giving malicious actors an overwhelming advantage in scale. Security teams are increasingly forced to adopt automated, AI-powered defense operations just to keep pace with the sheer volume of incoming threats. Ultimately, the expanding digital attack surface requires organizations to shift from reactive patching to comprehensive, board-level risk management.

Full report : AI is making cyberattacks for fast and complex and harder to stop.