CrowdStrike internally refers to the new threat of AI agents as 'the rise of the agent state,' says @​george kurtz. And that the 'aha' moment for CrowdStrike around the HuggingFace attack was that the frontier AI that accomplished the hack was available to the 'attackers' but not the defenders. "The limitation for these attacks is really going to come down to compute and cost. Because the knowledge has now been democratized, whether it's a hacktivist, an e-crime actor, a nation-state — they're all now equivalent because of agentic technology." "We call it the rise of the agent state. Post-nation-state. The apex predator is now the agent state." "What's really interesting is that when you go back to HuggingFace, when you look at what these agents were capable of doing, and just how sophisticated they were, with note-taking and communicating and maybe working as part of a collective, it's incredible." "But the thing that I really called out in my keynote [today] was, that's all groundbreaking, but really, what was the 'aha' moment?" "The 'aha' moment was the same incredible frontier-caliber AI was available to the adversary — in this particular case, it was trying to pass a test — but it wasn't available for the defenders." ▻