Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.’s (NASDAQ:CRWD) CEO George Kurtz issued a stark warning during the company's third-quarter earnings, citing a growing wave of AI-driven cyber threats from adversarial nation-states, including China.

AI Is Expanding ‘Attack Surface’

During the company’s earnings call on Tuesday, Kurtz said, “AI is rapidly expanding the attack surface,” noting that businesses are beginning to onboard a whole new type of workforce, “the agentic workforce.”

“Humans using agents to do more and agents working by themselves, each with access to data, applications, compute, and sometimes even other agents,” he said, underscoring a new set of complications and potential threats that most enterprises are now exposed to.

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He added, “Now, just as anyone can use AI to vibe code and become ...