The Hacker News: 2026 Is the Year of AI-Assisted Attacks — Autonomous Agents Map Active Directory and Seize Domain Admin in Minutes
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The Hacker News reports that 2026 marks the shift from AI-assisted to AI-driven attacks, with threat actors using custom AI setups to automate exploitation. Autonomous agents can now map Active Directory and seize Domain Admin credentials in minutes. Exploits routinely arrive before patches, and AI makes phishing attacks nearly impossible to spot. The piece aligns with Cisco's State of AI Security findings that AI attack vectors have moved from theoretical to operational.