By Gil Baram
Publication Date: 2025-12-12 00:00:00
The question facing security and technology leaders is no longer whether adversaries will deploy AI agents against their environment. Now these leaders must ask themselves whether their trust architecture, access models and identity systems are ready for a world where breakout time – the time it takes an attacker to go from initial access to lateral movement through a digital system – has disappeared and machine-speed attackers are the default assumption.
Anthropic’s Nov. 13 report marked a significant turning point in cybersecurity. Their investigation into the GTG-1002 campaign – almost certainly believed to be a Chinese state-sponsored operation – confirmed that AI-powered espionage is no longer hypothetical or in development. It is active and already targeting large technology companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers and government agencies worldwide. Anthropic describes it as the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack carried out using…
