It seems early to speculate, but if this is related to the massive uptick in CVEs we've been seeing recently it feels like we're actively witnessing a corporate reckoning around security posture the likes of which has never occurred.
I'm not sure there will be corporate reckoning. Unless security breaches come with business impacting consequences, they will continue to ignore it and just pay out occasional class action lawsuit.
I agree for data loss and ransomware where the ransom is paid, ie economically driven attacks. I wouldn’t agree when the hack is designed to kill the business destructively and no economic gain is sought or intended.
The difference in attack methodology is trivial, from a threat actor perspective, imho.
- On October 14, 2026 (UTC), an external attacker gained unauthorized access to Zeabur's internal systems and some customer services. We began our emergency response as soon as we detected the unusual activity. We have confirmed that this incident affected a broader scope than the incident in late August...Having another security incident in such a short time has let down the people who trusted us. Protecting your services and data is our responsibility, and we have fallen short.
The "All modern digital infrastructure" xkcd (https://xkcd.com/2347/) where they had a fragile tower of blocks needs an update where those blocks are now collapsed on the floor in a complete mess.
> it feels like we're actively witnessing a corporate reckoning around security posture the likes of which has never occurred.
As a cyber person, I agree. The theater has met reality, and those who put in the work will have an easier time than those who just checked a box. Good luck to all actively responding.
Safety alignment feels like an absolute farce and the completely wrong approach too. These things are guns, or attack dogs. We've never succeeded at reigning in software with this approach in the past, besides maybe DRM, which is itself laughable under many circumstances. This has the unprecedented ability to entertain the base desires of most juvenile threat actors, which is to get a big payout with minimal effort (let alone the pre-existing sophisticated attackers, who are now basically gods). Now we have a turn-key tool that can leverage and chain the most minute vulnerabilities up the ladder to full compromise or discover zero days with unyielding dedication. It feels like it almost makes CVE level classification moot.
As someone who red teams with open weight models (GLM 5.3 currently) and a domain focused harness, I would agree with this. No regulation will prevent a sufficiently capable open model, nor stop the development of open models. Alignment efforts are “please don’t stop us from selling stock to the unsophisticated” imho. They aren’t stopping anyone competent and/or capable from model development and training.
Earlier this year, Frontier was one of the orgs that got their data leaked thanks to incorrectly configured security settings on their Microsoft Power Pages based website. While this is unlikely to be the source for current flight confirmation numbers, such data could sure help in phishing operations.
The difference in attack methodology is trivial, from a threat actor perspective, imho.
- On October 14, 2026 (UTC), an external attacker gained unauthorized access to Zeabur's internal systems and some customer services. We began our emergency response as soon as we detected the unusual activity. We have confirmed that this incident affected a broader scope than the incident in late August...Having another security incident in such a short time has let down the people who trusted us. Protecting your services and data is our responsibility, and we have fallen short.
The end of the road – OSGrid shutting down due to attack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060854 - October 2026
7 Companies Forced to Shut Down After a Data Breach - https://n2ws.com/blog/5-companies-shut-down-data-breaches - March 4th, 2025
(if others have more examples, I am collecting them, please drop them in a reply)
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> it feels like we're actively witnessing a corporate reckoning around security posture the likes of which has never occurred.
As a cyber person, I agree. The theater has met reality, and those who put in the work will have an easier time than those who just checked a box. Good luck to all actively responding.
https://venarix.com/blog/exfilsquad-targets-misconfigured-mi...
Stay safe guys.