Trend Micro issues warning over rise of ‘vibe crime’ as cyber criminals turn to agentic AI to automate attacks

Trend Micro is warning of a boom in ‘vibe crime’ – the use of agentic AI to support fully-automated cyber criminal operations that go way beyond today’s ransomware and phishing campaigns.

In a new report, the cybersecurity firm predicted that agentic AI will massively increase attack volume, with automated phishing, fraud, and breach exploitation becoming continuous background operations.

Criminal ecosystems will move from a traditional Cybercrime as a Service model to what Trend Micro called ’Cybercrime as a Servant’, relying on chained AI agents and autonomous orchestration layers to run criminal businesses end-to-end.

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