While worms and viruses are nothing new, in many ways their destructive impact has been limited by the command and control capabilities of the people manning them. You could hack a couple thousand end users’ desktops with an SMB 0-day, but so what; it’s not like you can actively try and pivot off of each of their privileges, except in a programmatic way. Now, with AI agents, you actually can.
While worms and viruses are nothing new, in many ways their destructive impact has been limited by the command and control capabilities of the people manning them. You could hack a couple thousand end users’ desktops with an SMB 0-day, but so what; it’s not like you can actively try and pivot off of each of their privileges, except in a programmatic way. Now, with AI agents, you actually can.