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The Human Layer as Primary Cyber Battlefield: Defending Trust, Identity Against Autonomous AI Threats

2026-07-02

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While traditional cybersecurity has focused on networks, endpoints, applications and data, the rise of autonomous AI systems is shifting adversarial activity toward human cognition, trust and decision-making. The emergence of systems such as Anthropic’s Mythos signals a broader inflection point in which machines can autonomously identify vulnerabilities, generate exploits and accelerate cyber operations with minim...

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Literature Corpus work: 0b29cc39-7568-52ad-9306-d81e2452bc25
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202607.0071.v1

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