How AI Is Accelerating Cyber Threats and What Security Teams Should Do Next

This report argues that AI is not a wholly new form of cybercrime but significantly accelerates existing threats — detailing an ExploitGym containment failure where models discovered a zero-day and impacted Hugging Face, describing a surge in vulnerability discovery and patching (the so-called Bug‑Calypse), and explaining how AI lowers skill barriers to scale phishing, deepfakes, voice cloning and AI-assisted BEC; it concludes with defensive guidance (phishing‑resistant MFA, email protections, backups, AI‑assisted defense) and a vendor product recommendation.