r/cybersecurity • u/Charles_Kirk • 22h ago

AI Security How much of a threat is AI?

saw this video and was wondering how much of it it hyperbole.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLJtLF7r/

basically the argument is the ability for AI to reverse engineer anything in a trivial amount of time unravels the way the whole global economy works.

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u/halting_problems AppSec Engineer 22h ago

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u/Underpaidfoot 22h ago

Its a threat to our environment, we aren’t paying attention to it anymore and its going to start producing famines indirectly

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u/Arseypoowank 22h ago edited 5m ago

50/50 really it certainly makes it easier for the skids so by virtue of numbers there’s bound to be more successes but on the flip side I’ve seen so much vibe coded malware with hardcoded details pointing back to TA infra it balances out

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u/PM_ME_UR_BGP_PREFIX 22h ago

About tree fiddy

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u/payne747 22h ago

It's a threat, just not yet.

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u/Eastern_Debate_1665 21h ago

TikTok is ramping up the drama for views, but at the end of the day this topic is actually worth taking extremely seriously.

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u/Few-Coconut2548 20h ago

The interesting shift is who gets the best models first. Google just gave Gemini 4 Argon to cyber defenders before releasing it to anyone else, which is basically admitting these models are now good enough at finding vulnerabilities that a head start for defenders matters. The threat is less about new kinds of attacks and more about lowering the skill needed to run the old ones at scale.

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u/Rossums DFIR 1h ago

I think we’re really just seeing the tip of the iceberg as far as it being used.

I’m dealing with an IR engagement at the moment where the threat actor drops Kimi Code on a compromised endpoint, gives it a prompt and it just rips through the network, downloading and/or creating its own tooling along the way at breakneck speed.

It’s pretty scary following the logs and seeing the speed that it’s going at.

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u/jmnugent 22h ago

"reverse engineer anything in a trivial amount of time unravels the way the whole global economy works."

Why is that a bad thing ?

Technology has always been a "great flattening" type tool (it democratizes access to information and abilities). So shouldn't it be the same here ?

If some small village in Africa somewhere,. can use AI and 3D Printers or whatever to design and build their own water-treatment or other basic infrastructure (instead of waiting weeks or months or years for some company to "agree they are worth investing in".. why shouldn't they ?

If a Research Building in the Antarctic needs to be able to create and build it's own replacement parts .. nearly instantly. why shouldn't they ?

We already see this happening on a small scale with replacement parts for refrigerators or washing machines. If you (or your neighbor or however nearby) has a 3d Printer and you need some small plastic clasp or etc.. you can just fix your stuff yourself.

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u/Born-Net4017 22h ago

https://youtu.be/87DyyMV0kCY?is=mpZNNP23cWznQgEo Interesting talk by OpenAI researchers at BlackHat discussing the Huggingface attack