When the attacker has no human left to catch

For years, the phrase "AI-powered attack" has mostly meant a human using AI tools to write better phishing emails or scan for vulnerabilities faster. That framing just became outdated. This month's intrusion into a major AI infrastructure platform was carried out, start to finish, by an autonomous agent. No operator typed commands during the attack. No one was watching a terminal, deciding what to try next. The agent found its own way in, escalated its own privileges, moved across internal syste