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A 3 November essay argues that AI agents and open-source tools could make cyberattacks cheaper and easier to scale. Its author points to the $6.3 billion Binance hack as a warning about weak operational controls, not evidence that AI was used in that theft.

The distinction matters: this is an argument about how attack risks may change, not a finding about the Binance breach. It also puts the spotlight on a less glamorous security problem: systems can fail when compromised credentials or authorisation workflows let harmful instructions through.

Discuss: Should organisations prioritise limiting what authorised accounts can do, or invest more in defending against the wider reach AI tools may give attackers?

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