The price has gone up if you’re getting AI to do it. In terms of finding low hanging fruit, reasonably good code scanning tools have been around for a while.
The thing that’s changed for attackers is speed. The things that got you hacked yesterday are the same things getting you hacked today.
Finding and weaponising things like memory corruption bugs required an enormous amount of relatively hard to find skill, and considerable time. An idiot can now throw tokens at the problem and have something they can reliably use within minutes or hours.
The thing that’s changed for attackers is speed. The things that got you hacked yesterday are the same things getting you hacked today.
Finding and weaponising things like memory corruption bugs required an enormous amount of relatively hard to find skill, and considerable time. An idiot can now throw tokens at the problem and have something they can reliably use within minutes or hours.