{"id":60281,"date":"2026-03-08T11:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ai-agents-now-help-attackers-including-north-korea-manage-their-drudge-work\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T11:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:00:06","slug":"ai-agents-now-help-attackers-including-north-korea-manage-their-drudge-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ai-agents-now-help-attackers-including-north-korea-manage-their-drudge-work\/","title":{"rendered":"AI agents now help attackers, including North Korea, manage their drudge work"},"content":{"rendered":"

interview<\/span> AI agents allow cybercriminals and nation-state hackers to outsource the “janitorial-type work” needed to plan and carry out cyberattacks, according to Sherrod DeGrippo, Microsoft’s GM of global threat intelligence. North Korea is taking advantage.<\/p>\n

This includes tasks such as performing reconnaissance on compromised computers, and standing up and managing attack infrastructure – which may not sound as thrilling as plotting and carrying out digital intrusions<\/a>, but are real-world criminal use cases for agentic AI<\/a> that should make threat hunters sit up and take notice.<\/p>\n

“Agentic, automated reconnaissance against systems is something that is worth taking a look at,” DeGrippo said during an interview with The Register<\/em>. “Go find out about XYZ, and come back to me with everything you’ve seen. Go scan the net blocks owned by this particular entity.”<\/p>\n