Spy vs. Spy at Machine Speed: Inside the Agentic AI Arms Race
Salesforce, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
Salesforce examines JadePuffer, a ransomware attack in which an autonomous agent carried out the whole technical intrusion.
Salesforce examines what it calls the agentic AI arms race through the case of JadePuffer, a label security firm Sysdig applied to a ransomware attack.
In that incident a human initiated the operation but an autonomous AI agent independently carried out the entire technical intrusion.
The agent's work spanned reconnaissance through to database encryption and deletion. The article uses the case to frame how the balance between attacker and defender changes when both sides run at machine speed. It is written for business and technology leaders rather than security specialists.