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🇭🇷 Croatian, 16 October 2026, ai-powered attacks

AI-Powered Attacks Speed Up, Exposed Systems Become Targets in Minutes

Exposed systems become targets in minutes, with 73.3% of initial access attempts targeting humans and their digital identities.

Napadači and still use known methods and target the same types of targets, but the scale and effectiveness of attacks have dramatically increased. AI gives sophisticated attackers an advantage, which defense must respond to much faster.

More than half of all breaches end in further data theft, with a single compromised identity potentially opening access to a number of other accounts and systems.

Microsoft advises organizations to prioritize multi-factor authentication resistant to phishing, consistent identity management, and strict control of privileged access.

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