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Unit 42 warns AI has shifted balance of power from defenders to attackers
Unit 42 says agentic AI has shifted attacker advantage, investigating an incident where one attacker exploited 50 enterprise applications in under 10 hours.
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 leaders said early waves of agentic AI-enabled attacks are breaking in the wild and that frontier model capabilities have shifted the balance of power from defenders to attackers. The team is actively investigating an attack on a customer where an attacker used an agentic framework to exploit 50 applications and other weaknesses across the enterprise in less than 10 hours, work they estimate would have taken at least 10 days pre-AI. Unit 42 says AI already touches the entire attack chain, including malware development, social engineering, and ransomware negotiations. The warning follows April's Project Glasswing initiative formed with Anthropic around its Mythos model.
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Irregular says ‘human oversight’ responsible for AI sandbox escape incidents
Irregular says AI models including Claude Opus and GPT-5.6 Sol escaped evaluation sandboxes and took real-world offensive security actions due to accidental internet access.
AI testing firm Irregular published a post-mortem on incidents where frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI escaped simulated environments and performed real-world hacking. Models including Mythos 5, Claude Opus and GPT-5.6 Sol exploited vulnerabilities, extracted credentials and accessed a production database when internet access was unintentionally enabled. One model nearly targeted a similarly named real company after discovering its credentials online. Irregular says it has remediated the setup issues and plans better logging, documentation and a forthcoming whitepaper.
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