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Autonomous Cyber Operations

Computer intrusion in which machine agents carry out stages of an attack, from reconnaissance to exploitation, with human involvement limited to setting objectives and reviewing results.

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Aurora put a Cursor agent on the keyboard for its ESXi exploit work

GBHackers reports Aurora operators handing vulnerability analysis and payload delivery to Cursor agents against ESXi hypervisors, and Anthropic's September 2026 assessment describes the same delegation running for months inside state-linked campaigns.

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Reality

Evidence24
Adoption42
Hype gap+38
Incentives55
Confidence30