AI-Powered App Attacks Are Faster, More Frequent and Harder to Stop

AI, particularly agentic AI (AI systems that can plan and take actions independently), is making attacks on applications faster, cheaper, and more widespread than ever before. Attackers are now targeting all apps as primary threats rather than some being less important, and apps face hostile attacks within hours of being published online instead of days. Critical sectors like medical devices and automotive apps are seeing the steepest increases in attacks because AI tools have made it easier to reverse engineer (understand how software works by analyzing it) the complex, specialized code that once protected these systems.