Spy turned startup CEO: 'The WannaCry of AI will happen'

An interview with Zafran Security’s CEO Sanaz Yashar warns that AI is accelerating cyber threats, citing Mandiant’s negative time-to-exploit trend and broad LLM-assisted weaponization. It highlights growing risks from prompt injection, guardrail bypasses, and vulnerabilities within AI systems themselves, predicting potential large-scale collateral damage akin to a future “WannaCry of AI.” The piece advocates AI-driven threat exposure management and human-in-the-loop agents for proactive mitigation, rather than presenting a specific incident report.