""Agentic AI gives criminals a ready-made arsenal that scales, adapts, and keeps working even when the humans disappear. The real risk is not a sudden AI-fueled explosion of crime, but the slow, unstoppable automation of attacks that used to require skill, time, and effort. This shift is already underway," said Robert McArdle, director of forward-looking threat research at Trend Micro. "We will see an optimization of today's leading attacks, the amplification of attacks that previously had poor ROI, and the emergence of brand new 'Black Swan' cybercrime business models.""
"Criminal ecosystems will move from a traditional Cybercrime as a Service model to what Trend Micro called 'Cybercrime as a Servant', relying on chained AI agents and autonomous orchestration layers to run criminal businesses end-to-end. Researchers said they expect to see more attacks on enterprise cloud and AI systems, as these provide cyber criminals scalable power, compute, AI capabilities, storage, and access to valuable information they can use to run their agentic architecture."
"This, the company warned, will introduce new kinds of attacks - many of which are unprecedented, or expected to grow in scale. Meanwhile, agentic cyber crime will influence the overall setup of today's criminal ecosystem, giving rise to new or enhanced criminal business models and trends. Looking ahead, Trend Micro said defensive platforms and security solutions will need their own orchestrators and autonomous agents to counter the shift, or risk being overwhelmed."
Trend Micro warned that agentic AI will massively increase attack volume by enabling automated phishing, fraud, and breach exploitation to run continuously. Criminal ecosystems will evolve from Cybercrime as a Service to 'Cybercrime as a Servant', using chained AI agents and autonomous orchestration layers to run criminal businesses end-to-end. Agentic AI will scale, adapt, and sustain attacks even without human operators, optimizing high-value attacks, amplifying low-ROI attacks, and spawning novel 'Black Swan' business models. Enterprise cloud and AI systems are expected to be primary targets because they offer scalable compute, storage, AI capabilities, and valuable data. Defensive platforms will require their own orchestrators and autonomous agents to avoid being overwhelmed.
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