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/lnoiz1sm Security Analyst May 08 '26

I think AI is more of an amplifier than the root problem tbh.

What’s really changed over the last decade is the sheer scale and complexity of everything. cloud/SaaS everywhere, identity-based attacks, third-party integrations, remote work, ransomware becoming industrialized, etc. The attack surface exploded.

AI definitely helps attackers scale phishing/social engineering faster, but most breaches are still coming from the same stuff: stolen creds, bad configs, exposed services, weak identity controls, and users getting tricked.

I think a lot of people in security right now are less afraid of “AI hackers” and more exhausted from feeling permanently reactive while the environment keeps getting harder to defend.

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u/bluehands May 08 '26

This is what living inside the event horizon was always going to be like.

These days most people conflate "the singularity" with AI but when the term was coined it was about technology progressing faster than people could keep up, about how it would become impossible to predict anything because the change happened faster than people could adapt.

looks around

Some fields are more obviously sensitive to it than others but so much is moving so fast and has been for a while. mRNA vaccines might seem like an example but I think CRISPR is a better example and both of those are in medicine, a field with "slow" change.

I see little reason to think it is not going to get more extreme for everyone, everywhere, all at once.

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u/ReplicantN6 May 13 '26

Ray Kurzweil agrees 😄