<ul><li>The recent takedown of DanaBot, a Russian malware platform, highlighted the role of agentic AI in redefining cybersecurity operations.</li><li>DanaBot had 150 active C2 servers per day and around 1,000 daily victims across 40 countries.</li><li>The U.S. DOJ indicted 16 DanaBot defendants for orchestrating fraud schemes and ransomware attacks.</li><li>Originally a banking trojan, DanaBot evolved into a versatile cybercrime toolkit.</li><li>DanaBot has links to Russian intelligence activities, merging cybercrime with state-sponsored espionage.</li><li>Agentic AI enabled predictive threat modeling, telemetry correlation, and dismantling DanaBot's infrastructure.</li><li>The takedown showed agentic AI's value by reducing months of manual analysis to weeks.</li><li>SOCs are benefiting from agentic AI tools for autonomous threat detection, analysis, and response.</li><li>DanaBot operated globally, compromising victims in multiple countries with stealthy tactics.</li><li>Agentic AI platforms reduce alert fatigue, improve analyst workflows, and enhance threat response capabilities.</li></ul>

DanaBot takedown shows how agentic AI cut months of SOC analysis to weeks

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