AI-Driven Cyberattacks: How Agentic AI Is Reshaping Cybersecurity
Security teams have been talking about attackers “moving faster than defenders” for years. That gap, which used to be measured in weeks, but now with AI in the mix is now measured in days.
This shift has become an official policy concern in India. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Financial Stability Report for June 2026 surveyed 33 scheduled commercial banks and 10 upper-layer Non-Banking Financial Companys, and found that for the first time, AI-enabled cyber threats topped the list of risks institutions expect to face over the next year. This is ahead of ransomware, phishing, and third-party supply chain exposure.
It’s a striking reversal: for more than a decade, ransomware held that top spot in nearly every risk survey I’ve seen.
What “agentic” actually changes
Most of the AI and cybersecurity conversations over the past two years have focused on AI writing better phishing emails or cloning a voice...
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