The Rise of Stealth Impact Attacks In the past year, cyberattacks have been increasingly focused on “stealth impact”, quietly degrading performance, inflating cloud and AI costs, and eroding revenue over time. This includes tactics such as mass creation of fake accounts, bot-driven abuse of transactions, and the exploitation of AI chatbots to exhaust costly tokens. At the same time, illegal data scraping is on the rise. AI agents are being used to harvest content from digital media and healthcare organisations, resulting in direct revenue loss and increasing the risk of downstream fraud. Attacks that once took weeks can now unfold in hours, with threat actors increasingly sharing tools and AI models to scale...