Vibe Hunting: A New Way Of Threat Hunting With AI

InnovationVibe Hunting: A New Way Of Threat Hunting With AIByAqsa Taylor,Forbes Councils Member.for Forbes Technology CouncilCOUNCIL POSTExpertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. | Membership (fee-based)May 20, 2026, 09:15am EDTAqsa Taylor is Chief Security Evangelist at Exaforce, an AI SOC company. gettyOn March 31, 2026, one of the most popular open-source packages, Axios, which is downloaded millions of times per week, was compromised. Malicious versions of the package were briefly distributed through the npm registry after a maintainer account was hijacked. Because Axios is embedded in countless web applications, mobile apps and back-end services, the exposure had a potentially broad reach.Security researchers believe the malicious packages attempted to steal credentials, cloud keys, API tokens and other secrets before deploying a cross-platform remote access trojan (RAT) for persistent access. The compromised versions remained available for roughly three hours before removal.​Any security leader who reads that number knows what it means in practice. Three hours is shorter than most companies take even to review an alert. But this is the new reality of modern cybersecurity. The gap between how fast attackers are moving and how fast defenders respond is widening.Developers got vibe coding. They stopped managing syntax and started expressing intent. The AI handles the mechanics, the developer handles the thinking and suddenly, the best engineers in the room got dramatically more effective. This is because the infrastructure was finally able to support them to the point that they didn’t need to focus on the heavy lifting, and they could spend that energy instead on creativity and execution.​Security operations teams need a parallel movement: vibe hunting.What is vibe hunting?The definition of vibe hunting is using AI agents to assist with the threat hunting process in the security operations center (...