Agentic AI and the Industrialization of Cyber Offense: Forecast, Consequences, and Defensive Priorities for Enterprises and the Mittelstand
Agentic AI systems can plan, call tools, inspect code, interact with web applications, and coordinate multi-step workflows. These same capabilities change the economics of cyber offense. The central near-term risk is not that every low-skill criminal immediately becomes a frontier exploit researcher; it is that agentic AI compresses the attack lifecycle by lowering the cost of reconnaissance, phishing, credential abuse, vulnerability triage, exploit adaptation, and post-compromise decision suppo
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Published: 6 May 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Military & security · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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