- Agentic AI is automating cyberattacks at machine speed and widening the cyber blast radius - Harvest-now-decrypt-later campaigns make quantum computing an immediate national security threat - Join the agentic AI and quantum risk panel at the 2026 Intel Summit on Sept. 24 The cyber landscape is being upended by emerging threats driven by advanced technologies. Agentic artificial intelligence tools are automating cyberattacks, accelerating the time it takes to infiltrate systems and exfiltrate data at scale. Quantum computing is about to further complicate cybersecurity as it threatens to break traditional cryptography that has protected networks and systems for decades. The intelligence community has identified AI and quantum computing as the two defining technological challenges to national security in its Annual Threat Assessment, or ATA. Issued in March, the report identifies the biggest threats facing the United States. At the Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 Intel Summit on Sept. 24, agentic AI and quantum computing will be evaluated as cybersecurity and national security threats. Technology experts from industry will join the Agentic AI and Quantum Risk: The Blast Radius Problem in Classified Environments panel to understand the evolving threat landscape and identify strategies to protect the nation’s critical systems and data from AI- and quantum-enabled cyberattacks. Register here! How Has Agentic AI Been Used in Cyberattacks? Cyber threat actors associated with China and North Korea have already been observed utilizing AI for reconnaissance and vulnerability exploitation. Anthropic’s November 2025 disclosure that Claude Code, its AI coding assistant, was manipulated by a Chinese state-sponsored group to infiltrate targets, including financial institutions and government agencies, demonstrates the severity of the AI-powered cyberthreat. First Documented AI-Enabled Zero-Day Exploit In May, researchers from Google Threat Intelligence Group identified a zero-day exploit that was developed using AI. According to the team, the cybercrime group intended to use