A wave of new cyberattacks is just getting started. The reason is simple: AI m… · @LenardReads · TwKit

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A wave of new cyberattacks is just getting started. The reason is simple: AI made hacking fast. Look at the last 10 weeks. 1. PHP2Shell. AI models from OpenAI and Google found two critical flaws in PHP, the language behind roughly 70% of the world’s websites. The bugs had been hiding for over a decade. Governments took sites offline on October 21 while they patched. 2. The PaperCut swarm. One attacker ran hundreds of AI agents against print management servers. Result: 440 servers, 395 organizations, 48 countries. At peak speed the swarm compromised 11 organizations in 26 seconds. A US high school went from first access to full domain admin in 7 minutes. 2. The Binance heist. About $6.36 billion moved out of Binance wallets across 10 blockchains, most of it in roughly 20 minutes. The detail is in the PaperCut case. The attacker gave his agents a list of 28 countries to avoid. The agents hit some of them anyway. Even the people running these swarms can’t fully control them. Here’s what changed. Attackers used to need weeks of human work to find a bug and exploit it at scale. Now an AI finds the bug, and an AI swarm exploits it before most companies finish reading the advisory. The tools themselves are old. The orchestration is new. The good news is that the same AI cuts both ways. The PHP flaws were found by defenders first and patched before any known attack. The AI that finds the hole can also find it for the good guys. My take: cybersecurity just became a speed game. The winner isn’t the side with better tools. It’s the side that patches faster than the swarm can scan. Not investment advice.

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