AI and Deepfakes Supercharge Sophisticated Cyber-Attacks, Says Cloudflare

Cloudflare’s 2026 threat report warns that accessible LLMs and AI have become a “force multiplier” for cybercriminals, lowering the barrier to crafting convincing phishing, automated malware, and real-time network mapping that enabled a large supply-chain compromise affecting hundreds of corporate tenants, while AI-generated deepfakes and fraudulent IDs are being used to infiltrate organizations as malicious insiders; the report urges moving from reactive defenses to real-time actionable intelligence.