--- title: Manage attack infrastructure? AI agents can now help description: AI agents are being used by cybercriminals and nation-state actors to automate the tedious operational work of cyberattacks, according to Microsoft's GM of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/manage-attack-infrastructure-ai-agents-can-now-help-tse9jhbsx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Manage attack infrastructure? AI agents can now help | daily.dev og:description: AI agents are being used by cybercriminals and nation-state actors to automate the tedious operational work of cyberattacks, according to Microsoft's GM of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/manage-attack-infrastructure-ai-agents-can-now-help-tse9jhbsx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tse9jhbsx.png og:image:alt: Manage attack infrastructure? AI agents can now help og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Manage attack infrastructure? AI agents can now help **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI agents are being used by cybercriminals and nation-state actors to automate the tedious operational work of cyberattacks, according to Microsoft's GM of global threat intelligence Sherrod DeGrippo. This includes automated reconnaissance, standing up and managing attack infrastructure at scale, and generating malware. North Korea's Coral Sleet group has been observed using development platforms to rapidly create and manage attack infrastructure. While AI-generated malware is still detectable and lags behind human-written code, the more sophisticated use case involves malware that calls AI functions and libraries directly. These capabilities lower the barrier for less technical criminals and accelerate attack timelines. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [AI agents can't pull off fully autonomous cyberattacks - yet](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-agents-can-t-pull-off-fully-autonomous-cyberattacks---yet-lzyaqsq12) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Hackers Are Automating Cyberattacks With AI. 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