Korea's National Police Agency booked the AI-driven attack on Shinhan Bank as a criminal case and assigned 28 cyberterrorism investigators to it. Whether the case moves to the new Serious Crimes Investigation Agency turns on how the Financial Services Commission classifies the bank's system.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence55
AI agents turn the endpoint inventory into a record of permissions and actions
Only 36% of IT staff in an Automox survey feel highly confident in their endpoint compliance visibility, as AI agents start acting on managed devices. Agents inherit their launcher's rights, so teams now need a record of what each may do and what it did.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption50
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives80
- Confidence40
Two reports price the average ransomware incident at 36 times the median ransom
The $5.08 million average comes from IBM and the $139,875 median from Verizon, one a mean and one a median across different samples, so 36 to 1 is an order of magnitude. Even discounted, the money sits in downtime.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives92
- Confidence55
Orphaned AI agents keep their access after the employee who created them moves on
Reco says four in five AI tools in its telemetry run outside IT oversight, averaging 414 per 1,000 staff at smaller companies, which turns the cleanup into a question of who now owns each agent's credentials.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives78
- Confidence55
IT's AI shopping list is inverted: 46.5% want automation, 71% of their AI tools are invisible
Fleet's survey of 500-plus device management buyers puts AI automation on top by four points. The same respondents can name four of the fourteen AI tools running inside their companies.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives78
- Confidence44