Research released around the recent Black Hat USA 2026 conference suggests that artificial intelligence is increasing the speed and scale of cybersecurity activity without replacing the attack methods defenders already face.
Unauthorized artificial intelligence tools and agents are creating security risks for enterprises as AI adoption increases, according to cybersecurity company Sophos.
Threat researchers at cloud security firm Sysdig have disclosed what they describe as the first documented ransomware operation carried out end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent, with no human typing commands or directing individual steps once the attack was underway.
Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Storage Platforms reflects a broad infrastructure shift driven by hypervisor changes, cloud-style consumption economics, surging hardware costs, and AI.