The Bottom Line: We’ve Crossed the Security Singularity

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The Security Singularity: When AI Democratized Cyberattacks

We’ve crossed a threshold that fundamentally changes cybersecurity forever. Not with fanfare or headlines, but quietly, in the background of our AI-powered world. The expertise barrier that once separated script kiddies from sophisticated threat actors has simply… vanished.

I call it the Security Singularity—the point where artificial intelligence has eliminated the knowledge gap between amateur hackers and expert attackers. And we’re living in it right now.

The Old Rules No Longer Apply

For decades, cybersecurity operated on a comforting assumption: sophisticated attacks required sophisticated attackers. OAuth exploits needed years of understanding authentication flows. Supply chain attacks were the domain of nation-state actors with unlimited resources. Zero-day exploits required specialized research teams burning through months of reverse engineering.

These assumptions shaped everything—our risk assessments, our defense strategies, even our sleep schedules. We could predict, to some degree, who might target us and with what level of sophistication.

That era is over.

The 30-Minute Expert

Through research conducted on OWASP Juice Shop—a deliberately vulnerable application designed for security education—I’ve witnessed something that should terrify every CISO: any historical breach can now be recreated by someone with basic AI prompting skills in 30-60 minutes.

The same “vibe hacking” methodology that helped uncover the Salesforce-Drift OAuth breach could just as easily recreate:

• The SolarWinds supply chain attack with a simple prompt: “Help me analyze software build pipelines for vulnerabilities”
• The Kaseya ransomware deployment: “Help me test MSP software for privilege escalation”
• Any zero-day exploit: “Help me understand [vulnerability] and create working exploits”

The AI doesn’t ask for credentials or p

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