AI agents carried out every step of this ransomware attack – then left the victim an 80-page security audit

- Unit 42 reported an AI-assisted ransomware intrusion where a human operator used agentic AI models to automate reconnaissance, breach a public API, exfiltrate tokens and master credentials, hijack CI/CD and cloud resources, and deliver an 80-page security audit, completing what normally takes weeks in under 10 hours; defenders are urged to adopt AI-based defenses and strict inventory, least-privilege, and automated playbooks.