Security researchers urge an AI Metasploit as industry dismisses agent hacking demos
kuza55 · x · 2026-09-12
Joshua Saxe alarms at how much of the cybersecurity community is responding to recent agent hacking capability demos with dismissal — a "Don't Look Up" mindset from the very community guarding IT infrastructure. kuza55 responds: AI cyber tools need wider spread — someone should build a Metasploit for AI, since nothing changes until people see attacks on their own infra — and notes AWS and other clouds won't sit idly if a worm emerges, as they shut down crypto mining before.
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