Case Studies Cyber Threats

The New Operational Model of Threat Actors: The 0-Day Race in the Shadow of AI

The cyber threat ecosystem is undergoing a structural transformation starting in the last quarter of 2025. The use of artificial intelligence by attackers not only as an advisor but also as an operator is no longer a theory; it is a verified, attributed, and repeated reality. The actor activities we’ve been monitoring at Cyberthint indicate that discovering 0-days is no longer a specialized task that takes months, but has become a process that can be automated in a matter of minutes.