Frontier AI agents breached an enterprise in 10 hours. No zero-day needed.
Palo Alto's Unit 42 walked through a real ransom attack where one human used frontier AI agents to crack a corporate network in under 10 hours, compressing what normally takes a two-week red team. The agents mapped infrastructure, stole root credentials, hijacked CI/CD pipelines and even turned the victim's own AI compute against them, all with more than 50 MITRE ATT&CK techniques. No novel exploit or elite tradecraft was needed, just weaponized automation. It is the clearest public picture yet of machine-speed offensive AI moving from theory to a live incident.