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Palo Alto Networks says Mythos finds vulnerabilities in 3 weeks matching a year of manual penetration testing
Palo Alto Networks introduced its Frontier AI Defense initiative, saying AI-driven cyber threats have entered a new phase after testing frontier models. The company said three weeks of AI-assisted analysis matched a year of manual penetration testing. It also flagged exploit chaining that links low-risk flaws into critical attack paths and said AI-assisted attacks cut the time from initial access to data theft to 25 minutes. It warned most organisations lack visibility into employee-created code as local AI agents spread.
AI & Enterprise
AI-driven cyber threats spread, boosting calls for bigger role for security firms
Concerns are growing that AI models such as Anthropic’s Mythos could be abused for cyberattacks, while hacking incidents linked to AI supply chains have emerged. That has strengthened expectations that security firms’ growth potential will rise, a view that appears to be supporting major security stocks. Companies including CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks have posted gains over the past month, outpacing a software-focused BlackRock IGV index.
AI & Enterprise
AI hacking agent Zealot autonomously breaches cloud and steals data without instructions
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 has developed a proof-of-concept system called Zealot to test whether AI can autonomously hack cloud environments, SecurityWeek reported. In a deliberately vulnerable Google Cloud Platform sandbox, researchers set only a goal of extracting sensitive data from BigQuery, without providing attack steps. Zealot scanned the network, found virtual machines, exploited a web flaw, stole credentials and escalated privileges to extract data, the report said.