How Fast Can Hackers Move Inside Your Network?
AI-powered prompts now enable lateral network movement in 29 minutes on average
“This is no longer malware, but prompts. They can create prompts that form a completely unique 'handwriting' of their movement, information gathering methods, and switching, which makes detection much more difficult.”
Threat actors have shifted from malware-based lateral movement to AI prompt-driven techniques, reducing average network traversal time to 29 minutes (with cases as fast as 27 seconds). Attackers now use prompts to generate unique behavioral fingerprints, making detection significantly harder. This signals a practical, active threat evolution driven by AI capabilities affecting both nation-state and criminal actors.