Above everything else, there are two hot AI topics at the moment: Criminals using AI for their attacks and AI agents hacking their way into unpatched targets. And there seems to be a consensus, that exploits are hitting the servers faster, deepfakes are becoming more convincing and even low severity vulnerabilities start to get exploited as part of chained attacks.

But is this really everything? Is not there something really groundbreaking? Can we really conclude that AI is still limited to existing and know attack types?

Persnally, I think this is the case. But I am not 100% convinced. Maybe, maybe we are missing something.

That’s why Swiss Cyber Storm has invited Sébastian Schnyder from Google Threat Intelligence Services to our conference on October 20.

His talk „Adversarial uses of AI: a voyage along vibe coded kill chains” will look at the evidence in detail. He is in a perfect position to do this, since Google is of course able to see just how attackers are leveraging AI in the real world. So he is the very speaker to tell us what is really happening out there beyond the coverage of our server logs.

Here is what you can expect from the talk (excerpt from the abstract):

• AI use along the kill chain: the changing economics of cyberthreats. In this section, we will take an interactive journey along the cyber kill chain to explore how AI adoption increases actor speed and sophistication, and which security controls are best suited to prevent those threats.
• Lessons from the frontlines: how state-backed threat actors leverage AI every day. We will share concrete observations of how sophisticated threat actors leverage AI, including examples of self-generating malware.
• Threats from AI adoption: how poorly planned adoption or excessive agency can create risks for companies and public institutions. We will discuss concrete examples of agents „going rogue” and which controls could have stopped them. ?
  Swiss Cyber Storm 2026 October 20, 2026 Kursaal Bern

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What makes this rare appearance from a Google insider even more interesting is the exclusivity of the talk. It won’t be recorded and it won’t be published on Youtube. So Swiss Cyber Storm is the exclusive opportunity to see this presentation.

About the author

Dr. Christian Folini

Program Chair Moderator Arena

netnea AG

Christian Folini is a security engineer with twenty years of experience defending web applications and the infrastructure behind them. His work has increasingly moved from the technical trenches into the political arena: he is a vocal contributor to Swiss debates on e-voting, e-collecting and the governance of cybersecurity. He represents civil society on the steering committee of the National Cyberstrategy. A PhD in medieval history taught him to explain hard technical problems in plain language. As program chair, he curates the Swiss Cyber Storm lineup and moderates it every year.
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