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This was inevitable. AI lowers the barrier to entry for cybercrime just like it does for everything else. The concerning part isn't that someone used AI for attacks - it's how "unprecedented" the scale became. Automation lets bad actors operate at a level that would have required entire teams before. Defense needs to scale up accordingly. Manual security reviews can't keep pace with automated attacks.


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