Findings from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike's 2026 Global Threat Report, identify an 89% increase in attacks involving AI-enabled adversaries in 2025.
Instead, the attacks mimicked normal user behavior passing through trusted systems to access corporate systems, the report explains.
For businesses, those developments create added financial and operational risks as criminals increasingly use AI-generated communications to impersonate executives, manipulate employees, and obtain confidential information, Brown says.
Protecting corporate information is particularly important for companies operating internationally and maintaining sensitive engineering, financial, and customer records, Thomas contends.
"I just remove all the sensitive information or business names when inputting prompts into AI," Thomas says.