Definition
Cyberattacks where criminals use AI tools to make traditional attacks (phishing, malware writing, reconnaissance) faster, cheaper, and harder to detect. This is different from attacking AI systems themselves — here, AI is the attacker's weapon, not the target.
Why it matters
A leading industry benchmark now ranks this as a top-tier cloud security threat, meaning defenders everywhere are expected to assume adversaries have AI-level speed and scale, raising the bar for detection budgets and staffing.