Former DOE security engineer @asynchronous_x warns AI is narrowing the gap between junior hackers and agencies like the NSA: "We used to have this thing in industry where we would say, this is pretty secure, unless your threat actor is the NSA." "Now with AI tools you can take more junior people with less expertise, and they can make more sophisticated attacks. Somebody that would’ve been a less high-level threat actor before could potentially become a much more dangerous threat…

Matthew Prince@eastdakota2d ago

Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.