AI-Assisted Hacking Has Already Started. We’re Still Arguing About Whether It’s Real. (opens in new tab)

The debate about whether AI will change offensive security is over\. It changed\. You missed the window to prepare\. Let me tell you what happened in early 2024 that most security teams still haven’t fully absorbed\. A North Korean threat group — later attributed to actors working under the Lazarus umbrella — was caught using LLMs to accelerate spear-phishing operations at a scale that would’ve required twice the headcount eighteen months earlier\. Not using AI to write malware\. Not some Hol...