The next phase of the cyber war is here, and it’s powered by AI.
A new report from CrowdStrike Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:CRWD) shows that cybercriminals are moving quicker, hitting harder, and now leveraging artificial intelligence as a means of scaling attacks. The effect of this, however, is quietly altering the investment thesis for cybersecurity ETFs.
AI Is Speeding Up The Battlefield
The “2026 Global Threat Report” by CrowdStrike shows that the breakout time, the time between the initial breach of an enterprise network and the lateral movement of the attacker inside a network, was a only 27 seconds.
Meanwhile, AI-powered attacks accelerated by 89%, while zero-day exploits, attacks that occur before the software vendor has publicly acknowledged the threat, were up 42%.
This shift is forcing …
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