The AI-fication of Cyberthreats

### Executive Summary: This Trend Micro report outlines how AI and automation will industrialize cyberthreats in 2026, accelerating APT collaboration, agentic and multi-agent attacks, AI-driven ransomware and extortion, rapid zero-day discovery and exploitation, and cloud/multi‑cloud supply-chain risks; it warns that vibe coding, hallucinated libraries, poisoned models, and misconfigurations will broaden the attack surface and recommends shifting from reactive detection to anticipatory resilience, identity and access controls, CREM-driven vulnerability prioritization, and continuous verification and monitoring.