Mid-sized companies accounted for 73% of publicly disclosed ransomware and data-extortion incidents with known revenue in North America and Europe between January 2023 and June 2026
AI tools are being used by cyber attackers to write malicious code, build tools that harvest credentials, search compromised networks, identify valuable business information, manage technical infrastructure and generate commands during intrusions.
The conversation about AI in cybersecurity tends to swing between two poles. One camp treats it as an entirely new threat category that makes everything we know obsolete. The other dismisses it as marketing noise layered over the same old attacks. The data from the past year points to a more precise, and more actionable,…