How AI is Fueling Cybercrime and Why Security Gaps Are Growing by Lucie Cardiet

**Executive summary:** This report describes how adversaries are using agentic and generative AI to automate reconnaissance, credential harvesting, custom malware creation, large-scale fraud, and to sustain insider operations, enabling low-skilled actors and state-sponsored groups to scale ransomware, extortion, and data-theft campaigns rapidly; it highlights a widening security gap and recommends AI-driven detection (as promoted by Vectra AI) to close behavioral blind spots.