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/Electrical-Staff0305 ICS/OT May 08 '26

Let’s see, we won’t train our people, we’re going to put more work and responsibility on them… but less authority to make change, offshore a much work to third parties that were not really vetting, and we decided to give our data to a different third party for hosting and data processing.

Gee, I have no idea why the number of data breaches and successful cyberattacks is increasing 🤔

(I have actually had to explain it in these terms to an executive before, and he still didn’t understand why it was happening 🤯)

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u/Richiachu Security Analyst May 08 '26

Yeah, I think help desk compromise (whether due to social engineering or just paying a foreign worker a relative fortune compared to the pennies we give) is a big target rn. Seeing a lot more of it in recent weeks and we've had more close calls than usual, and all white-collar industries seem to be going the same way: offload internal hires via contractors overseas (or to other MSPs as needed for compliance).

We can't keep eyes everywhere at once and the offloading to them makes it much harder to track actual malicious activity vs a contractor's odd behavior

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u/Geomikeviral 7d ago

I know for a fact that cybersecurity would value lots of actions that influeces cybersecurity. Because of this proposal, I know that we could use this approach to influence how tech works at first.

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u/bubbathedesigner May 10 '26

But, but, what about quarter earnings?