Right now, models aren't the best at making human-like judgments, such as recognizing when legitimate tools are being abused for malicious purposes. And running a series of AI agents will require cybercriminals and nation-states to have enough resources to pay the cloud bills they rack up, Michael Sikorski, CTO of Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 threat research team, told Axios. But LLMs are improving rapidly. Sikorski predicts that malicious hackers will use a victim organization's own AI agents to launch an attack after breaking into their infrastructure., Underestimate how quickly adversarial hackers are advancing in generative AI, and your company could be patient zero in an outbreak of AI-enabled cyberattacks. Overestimate that risk, and you , AI Is Reshaping Hacking. No One Agrees How Fast (axios.com) 15 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday August 16, 2025 @03:39PM from the good-news-bad-news dept..