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And although regular agentic AI is still at a very early stage—and criminal or malicious use of agentic AI even more so—it’s even more of a Wild West than the LLM field was two years ago, says Vincenzo Ciancaglini, a senior threat researcher at the security company Trend Micro.

Trend Micro has open sourced its cybersecurity large language model (LLM) and artificial intelligence (AI) agent to help organizations automate threat detection.

Trend Micro rolled out autonomous agents and its own AI brain to customers last year.

According to Trend Micro documentation, the data extortion gang was seen launching exploits against the defect in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) framework to execute malicious code and exfiltrate data from targeted systems.

Cybercriminals working on behalf of at least six nation-states are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Windows to commit espionage, steal data and cryptocurrency, according to Trend Micro researchers.