Halcyon report: AI-tool ads top 1,400 a month

Halcyon counted more than 1,400 monthly ads for AI tools by February, up from fewer than 50 per month in late 2025, in its new underground-market report. The seven-month sample spans nearly 4,000 posts across 77 Telegram channels, 20 dark-web forums, and five specialized markets; it measures listings, not successful attacks. For security teams, that makes AI-assisted identity abuse and compromised accounts concrete monitoring targets, while the market count stays separate from incident rates. Our earlier review of model cyber-access controls covers the provider side of the same governance problem.