AI and AI-agents: A Game-Changer for Both Cybersecurity and Cybercrime

The report examines how AI and emerging autonomous agents are amplifying cybercrime—enhancing phishing/BEC, deepfake fraud, cognitive manipulation, and attacks on LLM/RAG ecosystems (prompt injection, data poisoning, misuse of integrations)—and warns of risks from self-replicating or rogue agents. It outlines defender strategies including AI-assisted detection and response, phishing/deepfake defenses, targeted security awareness, adversarial AI and deception, and counter-disinformation tools, emphasizing cautious, risk-assessed AI adoption to match evolving threats.