SI agents carried out an entire ransomware attack on a company in under 10 hours, and left the victim an 80-page audit
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A breach that used to take weeks is now done by agents in an evening, so defense too must work at machine speed or lose.
The Unit 42 response team (Palo Alto Networks) described a breach in which a human attacker delegated every stage to frontier models and agentic frameworks. The agents began with reconnaissance through a vulnerable public API, mapped internal microservices, pulled passwords from repositories, reached the secrets vault and root access, took over CI/CD and even used the victim's own cloud SI services, applying more than 50 MITRE ATT&CK techniques. This normally takes humans about two weeks. No new zero-day vulnerabilities were needed: the speed came from automation itself.