The End of the Artisanal Hack: How AI Industrialized Cybercrime

The enterprise software industry has long held on to the traditional assumption that while bugs are common, the expertise to exploit them, particularly at scale, is rare. That scarcity has helped keep digital risk manageable, if never fully contained. But a new report from Google published Monday (May 11) is turning that legacy assumption on its head by showing where artificial intelligence is compressing the cost and skill required to turn hacking into a scale business.