How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts
2026-03-10T01:23:27Z•9bb56c0475aac25d1b3446ad8b03bf6f8fba0189783368d994ed473d4d66f9a7
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What happened
Collection of KrebsOnSecurity posts (Jan–Mar 2026) highlighting rapidly evolving threats: AI “assistant”/agent tools that blur lines between data and code and create new insider/automation attack surfaces; Starkiller, a phishing-as-a-service that proxies real login pages and relays MFA in real time; and the massive Kimwolf IoT botnet (>2 million devices) used for large-scale DDoS, doxing, email flooding and even swatting, with a named botmaster (“Dort”) actively retaliating against researchers. Kimwolf operators have also abused anonymity infrastructure (I2P) to resist takedowns and claimed to
Why it matters
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- krebs_on_security
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- 2026-03-10T01:23:27Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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