Inside "Black October": AI's cyber scare delivers a Y2K lesson
Millions of hacking attempts have produced few successful attacks, despite fears over flaws in foundational web code.
The cybersecurity world braced for catastrophe after AI uncovered critical flaws in the web's foundational code, but the anticipated wave of automated attacks has surprisingly struggled to get off the ground.Why it matters: Millions of hacking attempts have so far yielded few successful attacks, an apparent lucky break due to the degree of difficulty of building attacks on the bugs.
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The gap between discovering vulnerabilities and exploiting them shows that AI-driven security threats may be constrained by the practical work required to build attacks. That distinction matters when assessing whether a cyber scare is likely to become a real wave of successful intrusions.
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