alt Hacker NewsThese attacks aren’t freak, and nor did they take state money. It’s more so that security by obscurity really did work because it didn’t cost a few dollars to attack people. Now we’re having to reckon with security debt, not code debt. It’s still quite fashionable to increase code debt to buy velocity and efficiency.
So I was saying that prior to AI say 2025, complex multi layered attacks were so hard to do that the resources kept it at a low frequency. Now layering ten different vulnerabilities to capture a flag is just five prompts away. This used to be so hard it could be ignored as a “likely” security risk.
That’s changed - we are in stormier weather and need better boats, but it would have been unlikely to have built battleships to sail the lagoon just in case…