AI agents now drive cyberattacks, Binance hack shows

AI agents and bots are now active participants in cyberattacks, highlighted by the record $6.3 billion Binance hack on October 29, in which attackers used a compromised internal AI tool to reach wallet engineers' computers. CrowdStrike reported a near threefold rise in likely agentic AI intrusions in the second half of 2026. Even unskilled actors can now attack faster and at scale than defenders can respond.