Incident response specialists are raising the alarm because they are receiving more and more reports of incidents in which attackers are using AI in a novel way. By using agentic frameworks, the AI can autonomously carry out large parts of a multi-stage attack. In other words, the AI is not doing anything genuinely new here, but its use leads to “more frequent, faster, and more scalable automated attacks with a higher success rate,” warns CERT-EU, for exam