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AI is making old cyberattacks cheap to run
Original: The AI security story is not new attacks. It is old attacks getting cheap enough to run against you. The attack that use
Commentators are arguing that AI's real impact on cybersecurity is not novel attacks but the collapsing cost of running existing ones. Attacks that were previously too expensive to launch against smaller companies are now affordable, meaning businesses of any size can become viable targets. The argument is that nothing technically new was required for this shift, only automation lowering the price of techniques security teams already know about.
Why now: Businesses are reassessing security budgets as AI lowers the cost barrier for attackers.
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- The AI security story is not new attacks. It is old attacks getting cheap enough to run against you. The attack that used to be too expensive to run against a company your size is not too expensive anymore. That is the change, and it did not require inventing anything new.… · aifueledculture.wordpress.com@aifueledculture.wordpress.com · 6
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