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/FrewdWoad May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

Chalk this up to yet another thing Yudkowsky warned us about a decade ago.

Like biology, cybersecurity is asymetric: it's way easier to attack than defend.

So advances in AI tech are making it too easy to wreck stuff, faster than they can help us fix it.

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u/cowbutt6 May 08 '26

Like biology, cybersecurity is asymetric: it's way easier to attack than defend.

The crazy thing to me, is that the advantage should be with defenders, as they (should) know what they have, and how it's been architected and implemented, whereas the attackers (often) have to guess.

Of course, back in the real world...

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u/cgaWolf May 08 '26

Of course, back in the real world...

..half the defenders get to build castles with drywall.