Insecure Agents Podcast: Weaponizing AI with Kyle Ryan

In Episode 7 of the Insecure Agents Podcast, Kyle Ryan, Head of Artificial Intelligence at Dune Security, explains how APTs and cybercriminal groups are leveraging artificial intelligence to launch more targeted and adaptive campaigns. He and host Allie Howe discuss how AI agents and offensive tooling can be weaponized for attacks, alongside the growing role of smishing, phishing, vishing, and even crypto scams like pig butchering.

Kyle highlights how groups like Scattered Spider are already driving real-world breaches through vishing, and how attackers quickly adopt the latest technologies as access to compute becomes easier than ever. These innovations allow hackers to continually push the needle, scaling impersonation, insider exploitation, and other social engineering tactics.

Throughout the conversation, Kyle emphasizes that while infrastructure can be hardened, people remain the critical line of defense, and hardening them is essential in an era of AI-driven threats.