Anthropic report: AI agents could make more companies worth hacking
jeremyakahn · x · 2026-09-24
Anthropic's latest Threat Intelligence report (covered by Fortune) argues that AI is lowering the expertise needed for cyberattacks, expanding the number and types of companies that are tempting targets.
- Historically, attack costs pushed sophisticated hackers toward only high-value targets; AI now makes complex attacks nearly trivially easy
- The report documents multiple cases of powerful AI models being used to automate attack workflows
- Implication: mid-size companies' security exposure is rising systemically
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