Autonomous AI Hacking And The Future Of Cybersecurity
CSO Online, Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
AI agents are automating key parts of the attack chain, threatening to tip the scales completely in favor of cyber attackers unless new models of AI-assisted cyberdefense arise.
AI agents are now hacking computers. They're getting better at all phases of cyberattacks, faster than most of us expected. They can chain together different aspects of a cyber operation, and hack autonomously, at computer speeds and scale. This is going to change everything.
Over the summer, hackers proved the concept, industry institutionalized it, and criminals operationalized it. In June, AI company XBOW took the top spot on HackerOne's US leaderboard after submitting over 1,000 new vulnerabilities in just a few months. In