COARK // SWARM SIMULATION

They don't pick a target anymore.

Autonomous agents now hit every system you run, all at once. Watch how it used to work, how it works now, and the only thing that stops it.

    Illustrative simulation. Timings scaled from the published data below. Turn sound on for the full effect.
    01 — THEN VS NOW

    The warning window closed. Then it went negative.

    Defense used to run on a head start: a bug went public, you had weeks to patch before anyone used it. That head start is gone. These are measured numbers, not the simulation.

    Days between a bug going public and attackers exploiting it

    Average time-to-exploit. Below zero means attacks started before a fix existed.

    2018–19
    63 days
    2020
    44 days
    2021–22
    32 days
    2023
    5 days
    2025
    −7 days, before the fix

    Sources: Mandiant / Google Cloud, Time-to-Exploit Trends (2018–2023); Mandiant M-Trends 2026, as reported by ComplexDiscovery (2025).

    Breakout time
    9h 42m29 min

    Time from first foothold to moving deeper into the network, for criminal crews. The fastest seen in 2025 took 27 seconds.

    CrowdStrike Global Threat Report · 2019 (2018 data) → 2026 (2025 data)
    Access handoff
    8+ hours22 sec

    Time between breaking in and handing that access to a second crew to exploit. In three years it went from a workday to a breath.

    Mandiant M-Trends 2026 · 2022 → 2025
    AI-enabled attacks
    +89%

    Growth in attacks by AI-enabled adversaries in a single year. The swarm isn't coming. It's the baseline now.

    CrowdStrike Global Threat Report 2026 · 2025 vs 2024
    02 — OLD METHODS ARE DEAD

    Every legacy control assumed a human on the other side.

    None of these were bad ideas. They were built for an attacker who gets tired, works one path at a time, and needs weeks. That attacker retired.

    The annual pentest
    Dead
    A snapshot once a year. An autonomous tester matched a principal pentester's 40-hour assessment in 28 minutes, and attackers run theirs all day.XBOW, 2026
    Patching within the month
    Dead
    Average time-to-exploit is now negative. Many attacks start before the patch exists.Mandiant M-Trends 2026
    Signature antivirus
    Dead
    AI-native malware asks a language model to rewrite its own code every hour. There's no fixed signature left to match.Google Threat Intelligence, via Cloud Security Alliance 2026
    Human-speed alert triage
    Dead
    Average breakout is 29 minutes, the fastest 27 seconds. The intruder has moved on before the alert is opened.CrowdStrike 2026
    Trusting the model to refuse
    Dead
    The refusal can be stripped out of an open-weight model with one command. The attacker's AI has no limits.Abliteration research, 2024–2026
    The perimeter
    Dead
    AI agents wired into internal systems are exposed to the internet by the hundreds of thousands. The inside is on the outside.OX Security, 2026
    03 — THE ONLY COUNTER

    Only a swarm keeps up with a swarm.

    If attackers hit everything at once, continuously, then your defense has to as well. The difference is that ours works for you, with your written permission, and hands you the fix.

    STEP 01

    Map

    Our agents find everything you expose, including the AI agents and tools wired into your systems.

    STEP 02

    Hit

    An authorized white-hat swarm runs the same autonomous playbook against all of it, at the same time.

    STEP 03

    Seal

    Every opening we prove comes back with the fix. The swarm hits it again until it's closed.

    STEP 04

    Repeat

    Continuously, because every deploy, vendor, and new agent changes what you expose.

    SECURE THE FUTURE

    Point a swarm at yourself before someone else does.

    Authorize a swarm test through Open Season, or get a briefing that maps this to your own systems.

    SOURCES

    Every number here is sourced.