AI-assisted cyberattacks breaching scale thresholds
Latest Processing Gap
The gap: the democratisation of sophisticated attack capabilities receives niche processing while its implications — that the barrier to competent cyberattack has collapsed — remains largely unmetabolised by the general collective.
Appearances
— 600+ FortiGate devices compromised across 55 countries by attackers using DeepSeek and Claude to generate attack plans. AI assistants weaponised as C2 relays. Supply chain attacks on AI coding tools. Tech discourse processes this with technical fascination: Hacker News dissects methodologies, security firms publish analyses, and the affected companies issue patches.
The gap: the democratisation of sophisticated attack capabilities receives niche processing while its implications — that the barrier to competent cyberattack has collapsed — remains largely unmetabolised by the general collective.