I’ve been thinking about how we’re still in the early days of agents, similar to the early days of the internet, happily opening up our machines and running new protocols.

Soon (now?) the threats will become ever more complex, and we’ll be back in the early-2000s-like virus storms.

My router got hacked the other month (left web interface open to internet) after being exposed to the internet and the persistence left behind was overly commented LLM artifacts. I caught it in like 5 minutes so they weren’t able to do much but it was eye opening how much more basic practices like firewalls are not something that can be ignored even if you update your firmware frequently.

What if I told you nothing new is happening? Except casuals are noticing what the industry knew and saw for decades?

Script kiddies aren't new. Metasploit has been around literally decades. vx-underground existed for years, not to mention older open source projects that collect all known malware dev tools. APTs have been pwning stuff, script kiddies have been doing their thing. Nothing significant has changed for anyone in the know.

Just because LLMs automated some offensive stuff doesn't mean there's gonna be new magic collapse of society.