Cyber security is under intense scrutiny these days, especially as more adversarial AI-based attacks such as Scattered Spider can use a variety of living-off-the-land methods to spread and speed their impact and disguise their operations. This means that defending today’s networks requires a quicker and more sophisticated, in-depth response. Offensive AI is beginning to thrive: Google’s Threat Intelligence group has tracked new and maturing AI-fueled attack methods including AI tools that can bypass safety guardrails, generate malicious scripts, and automatically evade detection. Anthropic has observed what it calls the first known use of AI-based orchestration to stitch together different pieces of malware to perform network reconnaissance, discover vulnerabilities, move laterally across…