HiddenLayer-Quarterly-AI-Threat-Landscape-Update-July-2026.md

HiddenLayer’s April–June 2026 Quarterly AI Threat Landscape highlights a rapid escalation in AI-driven cyber risk: frontier models able to autonomously find and exploit vulnerabilities, widespread AI-assisted and AI-generated malware (including autonomous ransomware), high-impact supply-chain and repository compromises (PyPI, Hugging Face, LiteLLM), critical RCE vulnerabilities in popular AI components (ChromaDB, transformers), large data leaks, and novel prompt/tokenization attacks and agent-skill abuse that materially expand attacker capabilities and scale.