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Autonomous AI Malware, Threat Actor Startups & Beating Burnout with John Hammond

July 2, 2026 · 29 min

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AI-Powered Malware and the Future of Threat Hunting


On this episode of Crying Out Cloud, Eden Koby Naftali & Amitai Cohen sit down with John Hammond to unpack the reality of autonomous AI hacking and why cybercriminals are operating like Fortune 500 startups.
1. Why modern ransomware groups have sales teams, HR, and go-to-market strategies.
2. How autonomous AI agents are finding zero-days while researchers sleep.
3. Glimpsing the future of non-deterministic, AI-driven command and control (C2) servers.
4. Real talk on incident response burnout and why the "always-on" hustle is breaking defenders.

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