Agentic AI Speeds Up Exploit Weaponization, Putting Unknown Assets at Risk

The "time buffer" cybersecurity has long relied on is rapidly eroding as autonomous agentic AI rises — a warning sounded in a contributed article, "Dawn of the Apex Agentic Adversary," published by the cybersecurity outlet The Hacker News. Written by asset-discovery firm runZero, the piece argues that the gap between finding a weakness and weaponizing it is being sharply compressed by AI, and that IT, IoT, and OT assets that go unaccounted for on a network can become direct entry points for attacks.