AI-Driven Attack Acceleration and New Attack Surfaces

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1. 19.02.2026 13:55 1 articles · 10h ago

   AI Accelerates Attack Cycle and Introduces New Vulnerabilities

   AI-powered systems are significantly reducing the time between exposure and exploitation by automating reconnaissance and simulation. This acceleration is driven by AI's ability to prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities and chain together low and medium issues. Additionally, AI adoption introduces new attack surfaces, including model context protocol vulnerabilities and supply chain hallucinations. Effective defense strategies must focus on Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) to address these new threats.

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• AI-powered systems can find over-permissioned workloads and map identity relationships within minutes.

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• In 2025, 32% of vulnerabilities were exploited on or before the day the CVE was issued.

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• AI-powered scan activity reached 36,000 scans per second in 2025.

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• Only 0.47% of identified security issues are actually exploitable.

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• Machine identities outnumber human employees 82 to 1, creating a vast web of keys, tokens, and service accounts.

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• Phishing has surged 1,265% due to AI's ability to mirror internal tone and operational 'vibe'.

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• Attackers can use prompt injection to trick AI agents into querying internal databases.

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• Attackers can poison AI long-term memory (Vector Store) to create dormant payloads.

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• Attackers can poison supply chains by predicting and registering hallucinated package names.

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• Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is recommended to focus on convergence points where multiple exposures intersect.

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