Your Attacker's AI Knows You Better Than Yours Does

On October 9, 2026, Japan declared a cybersecurity state of emergency after a ransomware attack spread rapidly through SoftBank's cloud provider IDC Frontier, affecting nearly 500 clients. Simultaneously, an open-source AI agent was used in a credential-stuffing attack on seven South Korean banks, demonstrating how AI empowers attackers by automating and scaling traditional hacking methods.