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The Cognitive Revolution · Saturday, October 31, 2026

ServiceNow Threat Researcher Reports AI Agent Attacks Costing 5 to 10 Cents to Compromise Companies

Michael Freeman, Senior Director of Threat Research at ServiceNow, noted that automated agentic cyberattacks have rapidly evolved, with recent targeting in Southeast Asia showing that compromising a company can cost as little as five to ten cents.

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“When we take a look at what's happening, especially in Southeast Asia, with the agentic attacks that are happening there in the past two weeks, we were able to identify it costs nowhere between five to ten cents to compromise a company now.”
Michael Freeman
Heard on The Cognitive Revolution — “AI:AM: Carbon in the Arena, Mistral's Le Chonk, the Agent-Run Economy, Ferroelectric RAM + New Hacks”, published Saturday, October 31, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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ServiceNow Threat Researcher Reports AI Agent Attacks Costing 5 to 10 Cents to Compromise Companies — Heardvine