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Assume You Will Be Hacked
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For all of the firewalls and two-factor-authentication codes, the safety of the internet is starting to falter.
Key facts
- The internet needs upgrades “at a Y2K-like scale,” Raffi Krikorian, the chief technology officer at Mozilla, told me, referring to a widespread fear that computer programs interpreting the digits
- And having an AI agent monitoring for intruders 24/7 could be far more effective than periodic cybersecurity audits
- Anthropic estimates that a major cyberattack on one of its 200 or so partner organizations could affect at least 100 million people
- Mozilla used Mythos to fix more than 400 bugs in the Firefox web browser in April, roughly 20 times more than it fixes in a typical month
Summary
Late last month, the reporter began to consider withdrawing some money from their savings account to buy gold. As AI tools have become extremely good at writing code, they’ve also become extremely good at pulling off cyberattacks. (Malware, after all, is still software.) The result has been a change in the scale, speed, and sophistication of hacks that is difficult to overstate: Among its tens of thousands of clients, the cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks identified a fourfold increase in daily attacks from 2024 to 2025. “There’s a crazy amount of offensive activity happening right now,” Alex Stamos, a former chief security officer of Yahoo and Facebook, told me. If the NSA is perturbed by the rise in cyberattacks, which it apparently is, then surely their savings are vulnerable. There could be any number of weaknesses in their bank’s IT systems to directly hack.
Such a relaxed security posture has been more or less fine because discovering vulnerabilities is hard and skilled hackers are few in number: Either nobody found the bugs or nobody could exploit them.