[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fJx5VwIT7sKl3FSR0IPUw6NFZmyv44DmNHdKZAMo8rpw":3},{"article":4,"iocs":50,"watch_terms":51,"solutions":52,"lesson":142},{"id":5,"title":6,"slug":7,"summary":8,"ai_summary":9,"brief":10,"url":11,"image_url":12,"published_at":13,"ingested_at":14,"relevance_score":15,"entities":16,"category_id":27,"category":28,"article_tags":32},"025a4a8e-9e01-40d6-91fd-6bdd6db29ba8","When Threats Don’t Wait, Security Can’t Either","when-threats-don-t-wait-security-can-t-either-c2f8f9","Dhananjay Ganjoo, Managing Director – India & SAARC The uncomfortable part of an adaptive attack is not how quickly it starts, but how quickly it can change course. AI-assisted operations can probe environments, learn from responses, switch techniques and chain subsequent actions while an attack is still in progress. Anthropic’s 2026 analysis of 832 accounts […] The post When Threats Don’t Wait, Security Can’t Either appeared first on Cyber Security News.","The article discusses how AI-assisted cyberattacks are evolving to become more adaptive, changing their techniques and pivot decisions in real-time during an ongoing operation. This adaptive nature, coupled with the dynamic and distributed nature of modern applications, creates a significant challenge for traditional security measures. The author emphasizes the need for runtime behavioral analysis to detect and understand these evolving threats.","AI-assisted attacks can adapt in real-time, posing new challenges for security.","https:\u002F\u002Fcybersecuritynews.com\u002Fwhen-threats-dont-wait-security-cant-either\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fcybersecuritynews.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2026\u002F10\u002FExpert-Insight_-When-Threats-Dont-Wait.png","2026-10-30T15:08:31+00:00","2026-10-30T16:00:07.076244+00:00",7,[17,20,23,25],{"name":18,"type":19},"Anthropic","vendor",{"name":21,"type":22},"AI","technology",{"name":24,"type":22},"API",{"name":26,"type":22},"Kubernetes","839da5c1-3c34-47e2-9499-f7201640e3ac",{"id":27,"icon":29,"name":30,"slug":31},null,"AI Security","ai-security",[33,38,43,45],{"category":34},{"id":35,"icon":29,"name":36,"slug":37},"26b0b636-0e31-4db1-bffb-61bdf9f20a58","Supply 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Traditional security tools that rely on known patterns or scheduled scans cannot keep pace with threats that pivot in real time across distributed, dynamic application environments. This matters because defenders are effectively fighting yesterday's attack while adversaries are already executing tomorrow's. Without runtime behavioral analysis that continuously monitors for anomalous activity, organizations remain perpetually reactive and exposed. The gap between threat speed and detection speed is now the primary attack surface.",[147,148,149,150,151,152,153],"CIS Control 13: Network Monitoring and Defense","CIS Control 17: Incident Response Management","NIST CSF 2.0 PR.AA: Identity Management, Authentication, and Access Control","NIST SP 800-53 SI-2: Flaw Remediation","MITRE ATT&CK T1566: Phishing","ISO\u002FIEC 27001:2022 A.8.8: Management of technical vulnerabilities","NIS2 Article 21(2)(b)",{"NIS2 Article 21(2)(b)":155,"MITRE ATT&CK T1566: Phishing":156,"NIST SP 800-53 SI-2: Flaw Remediation":157,"CIS Control 17: Incident Response Management":158,"CIS Control 13: Network Monitoring and Defense":159,"ISO\u002FIEC 27001:2022 A.8.8: Management of technical vulnerabilities":160,"NIST CSF 2.0 PR.AA: Identity Management, Authentication, and Access Control":161},"NIS2 mandates incident handling capabilities adequate to the sophistication of modern threats; the real-time adaptive nature of AI-assisted attacks makes robust, fast incident detection and response a direct compliance requirement.","AI-assisted attacks often begin with highly adaptive social engineering as the initial access vector, making this a representative technique within the broader adaptive threat lifecycle described in the article.","Adaptive AI attackers exploit any available weakness opportunistically; timely flaw remediation reduces the number of pivot points available during an evolving, real-time attack.","When threats evolve mid-operation, incident response plans must be dynamic and pre-tested; a rigid or slow IR process cannot contain an attacker that changes tactics faster than analysts can escalate.","Continuous network monitoring is the core countermeasure here — adaptive AI attacks that pivot in real time can only be caught if defenders have continuous, behavior-aware visibility across all network segments.","Continuous vulnerability management is a prerequisite for reducing the exploitable surface that adaptive AI-driven attackers probe and exploit dynamically during live operations.","Zero-trust access controls limit the blast radius of adaptive attacks by ensuring that even a successful initial compromise does not automatically grant lateral movement privileges across distributed systems."]