Attacker Uses Suspected AI-Generated PowerShell Script to Map Active Directory

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an intrusion in which an unknown threat actor leveraged a vibe-coded PowerShell script for Active Directory (AD) enumeration. "The script looked for the Domain Controller (DC) and mapped users, comp…
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