Industry, please hear us. Autonomous attacks are here, at scale, breaching many organizations right this moment. Usually, with ARTEX and Cairn, usually through vulnerabilities.
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Heather Adkins (@argvee) and I asked the industry to believe us…
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Tools may be replaced, but hackers are in the right place at the right time, inventing what comes next.
Another week, another proof point for autonomous hacking - SoftBank. 7 min to pwnage.
It was a vulnerability, but it could have been a misconfig - I’m giving up that battle to focus on what matters.
And man, hearing the CEO speak vuln exhaustion.. feels
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Thank you, Aleph One.
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SITUATION DETECTED: METR estimates Anthropic is improving model capabilities at around 2× the March 2024–October 2025 rate, and may be running as high as 3×, with 80% of the current acceleration directly due to AI assistance, not compute scaling.
At DISC 2026? https://t.co/AE20tju8oD - Reach out if you'd like to chat about Dragos research and runZero product things! Great talks and an amazing community of defenders. I'd post photos/highlights, except its not that kind of conference, and you have to be here to see them.