AI lowers barriers for sophisticated cyberattacks as hackers automate operations: Report
New Delhi [India], September 12 (ANI): Artificial intelligence (AI) is lowering the barriers to sophisticated cyberattacks by allowing individual hackers to automate operations ranging from reconnaissance and phishing to system exploitation and data theft, according to a report by Anthropic.
“Sophisticated attacks no longer require sophisticated attackers,” Anthropic said in the report titled Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026, adding AI use has moved beyond simple chatbot interactions to multi-agent systems capable of carrying out reconnaissance, exploitation and data exfiltration.
