Agentic AI systems can plan, call tools, inspect code, interact with web applications, and coordinate multi-step workflows. These same capabilities change the economics of cyber offense. The central near-term risk is not that every low-skill criminal immediately becomes a frontier exploit researcher; it is that agentic AI compresses the attack lifecycle by lowering the cost of reconnaissance, phishing, credential abuse, vulnerability triage, exploit adaptation, and post-compromise decision support. This paper synthesizes current public evidence from national cybersecurity agencies, industry threat reports, agent security guidance, and research on LLM agents cyber capabilities. It introduces a Three Channel Agentic Cyber Risk Model and an Agentic Attack Compression Model, uses the 2026 Linux kernel Copy Fail incident as a case study for foothold-to-root acceleration, and develops a 2026 to 2028 forecast for large enterprises and the German and European Mittelstand. The paper concludes with a prioritized defense roadmap. Organizations should treat agentic AI security as an immediate operational problem: identity, phishing resistant authentication, patch velocity, CI/CD and Linux/container hardening, agent governance, telemetry, and recovery readiness must be strengthened now.