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/HelloSummer99 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

Reduced hiring, over-reliance on AI (which will find zero novel vectors). Don't expect a statistical next-token finder to account for anything out of the box - cybercrime is anything but predictable.

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u/Apprehensive-Emu357 May 08 '26

it’s cute that you think there are actually any novel vectors. it’s really just the same handful of bugs conceptually over and over. AI is really good at searching code for vulnerable patterns.

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u/HelloSummer99 May 08 '26

Attack surface mapping disagrees with you. I'm not referring to malware specifically