CrowdStrike: AI is now both the weapon and the target in cyberattacks

CrowdStrike: AI is now both the weapon and the target in cyberattacks
AI is creating far more detection noise for CrowdStrike than human-triggered incidents, with millions of daily leads and tens of thousands of customer alerts over the past year. The report says AI is now both a weapon and a target, accelerating vulnerability exploitation, supply chain attacks, and threats against AI systems themselves. #CrowdStrike #TeamPCP

Keypoints

  • AI-driven behaviors now exceed human-triggered incidents in CrowdStrike detections.
  • AI-enabled malicious activity rose sharply over the past year.
  • Attackers use frontier AI models to find vulnerabilities and generate scripts, payloads, and commands.
  • Most vulnerabilities are being weaponized through AI within 48 hours.
  • The TeamPCP cluster compromised more than 300 software dependencies in one day.

Read More: https://cyberscoop.com/crowdstrike-annual-threat-hunting-report-2026/