
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) warned in a major new threat assessment that generative and autonomous AI tools are industrializing cyberattacks, driving the window between software vulnerability discovery and active exploitation close to zero. Following recent coordinated cyberattacks targeting internet-connected appliances across nine EU member states, regulators emphasized that traditional manual patching cycles are no longer sufficient. ENISA urged enterprises and critical infrastructure operators to deploy defensive AI systems capable of autonomously detecting and neutralizing code flaws before attackers can weaponize them.