Agent swarms can exhaust the entire attack surface with "intelligent brute force"
JensHonack · x · 2026-11-06
Security researchers discuss the novel threat posed by AI agent swarms: the danger lies not primarily in stealth, but in speed, persistence, and near-infinite scalability. Swarms can attack everything everywhere at once before defenders can respond, and run unlimited attack "experiments" — a form of intelligent brute force — until the entire attack surface is exhausted, far exceeding what expert human adversaries could do.
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