AI agent attacks today are loud pentests — quiet autonomous swarms are the real threat
cyb3rops · x · 2026-10-21
Jerzy "Yuri" Kramarz of Talos Security argues current AI agent attacks resemble a loud pentest: high volume, off-the-shelf tooling. The real risk emerges when agent swarms are told to stay quiet and operate like a red team. HackingLZ adds that LLMs are "iteration machines" — the opposite of stealth.
Related event: Talos Researcher: Silent AI Swarms Pose the Real Threat(2 posts)→
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