# Cybersecurity Trends for 2026 ## Метаданные - **Канал:** Loi Liang Yang - **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zErI57HoGNg ## Содержание ### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zErI57HoGNg) Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00) Cyber security is a very serious topic and you need to ask your mom for permission first before you watch this video. And as an ex- ransomware gang leader now turned professional hacker I mean whitehead hacker this are my predictions for 2026. Are you ready? Have you grabbed your popcorn? I already had 20 cups of coffee, so I'm ready to go. One AI agents are here. Just a few days back in Thropic released. What they have investigated on are where the entire cyber attack chain and campaign is now running fully autonomously. What does that mean? It means that the cyber attacks are now crafted, created, fine-tuned by the hackers and the AI agents will go after the targets. They go after the infrastructures and they will do so autonomously. They will self-correct, selfheal, create those malicious payloads themselves until they get a hit. They will scan the environment for misconfigurations, for weaknesses. and then target those specific weaknesses, gain a foothold into the IT infrastructure and then move laterally, escalate their privileges, enumerate resources in the environment, excfilutrate data, disrupt services. This is the new state of cyber security. The hackers are now powered by AI. And not just AI itself, but AI agents who can think, who can troubleshoot, who can self-correct, and they can run all of this completely autonomously. So as the defenders, the defenders need to incorporate AI, AI agents into their environment. Think about how fast the AI are coding, how fast they could build out this attack infrastructures. The defenders need to do the same. And it's going to get even worse in 2026. If you saw the past couple of videos, what we've shown is you can easily embed LLMs into your software. And that is going to change how malware works in 2026 and in the future because now you can create this malware that will then use this AI to self-correct, self diagnose and navigate across the target IT infrastructure. And the moment it detects that there is some kind of investigation on it, containment, some kind of quarantine activities is coming to it, it would change its code base so that it remains stealthy under the radar. And once it realizes that it can no longer be detected, it begins executing to move and latches itself across the infrastructure. This is the future. Fully autonomous malicious software. We're now seeing more videos than ever before generated by AI. And it's not just that. It is that this videos could also invade images of politicians, celebrities, Mr. Hackaloy and many others. And it can do so with those voices too. And it's so difficult, if not near impossible, to distinguish between a real video and one that is deep faked. So you will see more scams. You see your friends calling you. They're talking to you. But it is not them. It is the hackers. It is the scammer who are behind the scene instructing the AI to create this videos to scam you of your hard-earned money to steal your credentials to drive certain campaign. We will see an explosion of deep fake videos, voices, email messages, and many others in the future. If you're watching ### [5:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zErI57HoGNg&t=300s) Segment 2 (05:00 - 07:00) this video, chances are you're either in tech or in cyber security, and our roles would change forever. I gave you several examples earlier that the hackers are already using AI. Whether you are a cloud security engineer, a cloud engineer, site reliability engineer, sock analyst, it would change forever. All of us will become AI engineer. I don't mean AI engineer in the sense of creating your own models. that may come true especially as we're going towards very niche deep domains within tech and we need those specialized capabilities and tasks to build those AI agents. So we are all going to become AI engineers in the sense of creating the AI agents and developing scalable infrastructures to run these AI agents. If you see what's happening right now, the hackers are using AI agents to run attack campaigns, disrupting critical infrastructures, applications, running full attack campaigns autonomously. And as a defenders, we have to do the same. It's AI against AI. So what do you need to do? learn? You need to learn AI agents, frameworks. how to deploy your AI agents into specific infrastructure. You need to learn how to scale them. You need to learn how to use them to scale yourself out autonomously. You need these agents because they will help you defend your enterprises. organization, defend your nation. What is cyber security going to become? It is who can better manage this fleet of AI agents. Let me know what you think. I'll see you on the other side. They care. --- *Источник: https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/38735*