{
  "id": 4880,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06713v1",
  "title": "Agentic AI and the Industrialization of Cyber Offense: Forecast, Consequences, and Defensive Priorities for Enterprises and the Mittelstand",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Christopher Koch",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "military-security,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-05-06T23:23:26.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:31:21.931Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/4880",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06713v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}