Security experts warn AI-armed attackers are doubling breach activity even as vuln counts explode
philvenables · x · 2026-10-21
Security expert Phil Venables writes that anecdotal data points to rising breach levels correlating with attacker adoption of AI tooling — incidents that may not yet show in official reporting because they fall below disclosure thresholds, occur in non-disclosing organizations, or land in other channels like fraud statistics.
The reposter adds that Risky Business noted vuln counts may be up by thousands of percent while breaches may not rise proportionally; still, the CISO community is seeing a doubling in attack activity, which is massive given global volumes. Advice: reduce attack surface, patch, get config hygiene right, and deprecate old appliances like VPN, Citrix and Zimbra.
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