AI-Driven Attacks and the Future of Security

Trend Micro's David Sancho on How AI Is Shaping Cyberthreats Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • December 25, 2025 13 Minutes

Artificial intelligence is changing cybercrime in a big way. Autonomous AI agents could soon carry out entire attacks on their own - scanning servers, testing vulnerabilities, refining exploits and even launching phishing campaigns from start to finish, said David Sancho, senior threat researcher at Trend Micro.

"It can do that really fast and really efficiently," Sancho said. "So, in the way that it can do it with an SQL server, it's a database server, you can do it with any other kind of server, with any other kind of inputs. So, I think that the possibilities are there, it's up to the bad guys to start abusing them."

While everyday criminals may hesitate to adopt such risky new methods, nation-state attackers are already ...