AI Didn’t Create a New Kind of Risk. It Removed the Time You Had to Fix the Old One.
Source: Qualys Blog
At a glance
Mandiant’s AI Risk and Resilience 2026 report shows attackers putting agentic AI to work across the intrusion. Vulnerability exploitation is still the leading way in, and the window to fix it is closing. Executive Summary Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) published AI Risk and Resilience 2026 in September. Attackers now use agentic AI for reconnaissance, vulnerability validation, and, in at least one case, a zero-day, yet vulnerability exploitation is still the leading way in for the sixth year running. AI has changed how fast attackers exploit far more than what they…