Agentic cyber threats collapse the distance between intent and action
Anthropic's August 27 threat-intelligence report describes artificial intelligence (AI) in use across multiple stages of cybercrime, including an extortion operation in which an agentic coding tool provides active operational support. The report also describes a low-skill actor using AI to develop and sell ransomware.
The change is not simply that attackers have a better advisor. It is that advice, tool use, adaptation, and execution can now be chained together inside a much shorter loop.