Security researchers warn autonomous attacks are breaching organizations at scale right now
WeldPond · x · 2026-11-12
Security researcher Gadi Evron, together with Google's Heather Adkins, issues an urgent call to the industry: autonomous attacks are here at scale, actively breaching many organizations at this moment. The campaigns typically use tools dubbed ARTEX and Cairn, entering through vulnerabilities.
The authors say they had previously asked the industry to take the threat seriously and are now presenting evidence in a thread — a notable signal that AI-driven autonomous offensive operations have moved from hypothesis to reality.
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