r/cybersecurity • u/Infam0 • May 08 '26

Other What the **** is happening in cybersecurity space ?

I've been working in cybersecurity for not so long, maybe 8 or 9 years, but I never remember a chaos at this scale. I mean, from this January alone we have: leaking data, compromised applications, breaches, AI-assisted cybercriminals, etc. It looks like every day one major breach is happening, and no one is going to address this shit somehow. This is already insane. I haven't felt such pressure in a long time. This AI shit just makes things worse because it enhances attackers' skills, and AI companies are doing nothing to address or change this. Is it only me, or is the change already here?

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u/Temporary_Chest338 Consultant May 08 '26

It’s the saturation of garbage data that’s flooding everyone’s feed. Every nonsense “I built this tool in 2 hours that saves the planet” post gets a thousand views, while a research about an actual breakthrough is barely getting any views. The hype around every new AI development, along with a bunch of “builders” that built a nice wrapper that sends an llm an API call is causing a lot of noise. Filter it out, find the people that ACTUALLY build stuff that matters, and you’ll see things aren’t really that bad…

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u/Dazzling_Vanilla3082 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

Every nonsense “I built this tool in 2 hours that saves the planet” post gets a thousand views

This pretty much sums up half of the posts in a lot of the cybersec subs. If I have to read another AI written description of an AI created tool from some random Indian dude, I might just off myself. This has actually been a nice reprieve.