My takeaway from stories like this is that it was always really easy to crack in to companies, but most knowledgeable people had better things to do.
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My feeling is companies leave themselves open by allowing everyone access to the network so the idiot who has been told 50 times not to click on a link in a suspicious email will still do it or hand out passwords to anyone on the phone. Even if you run a tight ship you'll give access to some contractor who doesn't.
A poor IT department is working overtime with limited funds for staff trying to fix stuff while bosses breathing down their necks.
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script kiddies wrecking corporate security is funny
prompt kiddies doing it is just depressing
Didn't think I'd ever side with no script kiddie but at this point fuck it.
If your company can't be bothered to do the bare minimum in security then yeah I hope the least skilled hacker ever comes along and wrecks it.
Thing is, with the latest frontier models, the least skilled person can find a crack in the most secure company around, as long as they can string a few sentences together.
It isn’t about “bare minimum” anymore. All it takes is a single lapse in vigilance from a single employee, and they’re in… and the LLM doesn’t have to pause to figure out what to do next.
Pentesters have access to LLMs too
some hacker unleashes malicious AIs to the internet, breaking it apart cause AI keeps finding vulnerabilities in everything and break things faster than humans can fix
corporates build corporate internet and the blackwall, which is AI to fight malicious AIs
Gooooood morning Night City!
Yeah, but an LLM's arms race isn't "doing the bare minimum in security", which is what the poster before was saying.
This is a genuine concern, where whoever has access to the best/most recent/most expensive models can unleash chaos - I'm talking state-sponsored attacks, mega-corp espionage, bored billionaires,...
The people you listed were already doing this. The problem is Darrell, the guy who thinks Earth is flat, can also do this.
Meh. When you're expecting to have to defend against an army battalion, how much of a thread is Darrell the flat-earther and his AR-15?
Because if Darrell is doing damage, you've been conquered and didn't even noticed.
Edit: in case you're not following the thread and feel an urge in your loins to come defend Darrell, do note that I'm not disparaging the issues a dimwit with AI can cause. I'm pointing out that other players will have even larger sticks than your friend Darrell.
Case in point, Darrell will not have Claude Fable. Others will.
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And no-skilled attackers can buy exploits.
Claude helping is insignificant to the story.
The real headline should be:
At least 14 companies' IT security is practically non-existent
At least 14. *screams until hoarse in industrial cybersecurity researcher*
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As someone who works in security, llms just make security happen or not happen faster.
I also work in security.
My company (which can damn well afford the costs) 100% REFUSES to leverage AI in any meaningful fashion. The CISO himself wrote the most braindead email to the CIO saying basically that AI isn't a threat and then showed it to the rest of us like he's proud of it.
I tried to push some adoption of AI based tools to help detect our own weaknesses and do some basic cleanup work. Nope. Stonewalled. I argued that every attacker is stealing accounts and burning tokens to tear us to shreds using every possible tools they can steal or even buy. We use Copilot.
Blank stares and crickets. We just keep managing our shit in spreadsheets that some dumbass emails as attachments and wonders why everyone has a different version of some useless thing.
At least they're paying me well. When they collapse in a little while, I suppose I won't be too surprised.
Only for a year or so. Any company still vulnerable after these tools have been out long enough deserve it.
Most people on lemmy seem to condemn use of LLMs in any way for anything, I wonder what those folks opinion of this stance is - should companies use the tools or not?
Cybersecurity is actually one of the few fields that can benefit from AI. There are companies like Horizon3 who are using it alongside their other threat models to do continuous pen testing.
Yeah imo the one thing ai is legitimately useful for is finding answers to difficult problems that can be trivially verified as correct.
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Finding holes in software has employed "fuzzing", where you send completely random payloads, as a research tactic for quite a while (and it has found exploits). LLMs just seem like "educated" fuzzing, I don't see why anyone would complain about updating your suite with them.
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they fired hordes of tech people, and neglected cybersecurity in many companies. this was bound to happen.
The IT Paradox :
- "Why am I paying IT if everything works"
- "Why am I paying IT if nothing works"
Every time i go on holiday something breaks. It reminds my employer of how many fires I deal with he never notices
Make the hidden work seen
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We warned them but humans preach ignorance like gospel while pocketing dollars.
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I would love to see the term 'low-skilled' used more often within the context of LLM's and the manner in which people use them.
Alternative title: the ubiquitous race for cheapest developers and fastest time to maket leaves everything insecure.
The attacker’s inexperience was also evident in his operational security failures. At one point he asked Claude to help edit his resume, which contained his full name, location, education history, and LinkedIn profile.
Later, while investigating a potential compromise of one of his own hosts, he inadvertently confirmed his home IP address to the agent. Based on this and other corroborating evidence, the researchers believe the attacker to be a young man based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Wow.
What a thumbnail!
@Grok, is this picture legit?
Tap for spoiler
/s
I'm nominating you for best spoiler reveal of the month.
dammit i wanted to win this one i'll have to wait until next month
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Wait until someone more skilled hacks the nuclear codes using AI and launches a few at US cities.
you need skills to type 0000-0000?
That’s the code for my luggage.
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Bad look for Claude after their vigorous insistence their model can't be used this way.
Also bad look for the 50 people I get in my inbox telling me AI is completely useless every time I talk about it. These arguments were worthy of entertainment a few years ago but not in 2026.
What’s the use here? A random Ethiopian kid doxxing himself while “breaching companies”?
This article reads like yet another sensationalist advertisement for ai. How many people have supposedly now gained the ability to “breach dozens of companies” simply by typing “please” into a text box? Hundreds of millions? How is society still functioning if this is going on?
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