alt Hacker NewsThe bigger problem here is that you can hack everything, all at once, for very cheap.
Don't get me wrong I have general disgust towards these companies that are trying to get regulatory capture on AI when they can't even secure their own systems. I believe if people know that a random AI agent can hack their systems they will put in a lot more effort into making sure it doesn't happen. This is a personal example, but I didn't really care about securing few systems as I knew no human would be ever interested in finding a vulnerability in proprietary software, however, AI has no concept of that and would hack a random rpi server running a completely undocumented unknown API just because it can't distinguish value and it costs nothing.
Ya, quantity is a quality in of itself. In the past hackers may have used something unimportant to get a foothold but almost always tried to get to worthwhile machines. An AI will compromise everything in the network it can quickly simply because it can (assuming the attacker has a large budget, but I'll assume they stole the tokens).
It's like a new form of spam. Only far more dangerous.