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2026-04-25 12:14
Cybersecurity Is Entering Its Most Dangerous Era: When Machines Attack Trust Itself
For years, cybersecurity was understood through familiar battlefields: malware, ransomware, phishing, insider threats, zero-days, nation-state espionage. Defenders built firewalls, SIEM platforms, EDR stacks, IAM controls, SOC teams, and playbooks around these known patterns.
But a deeper shift is now underway.
The next era of cyber conflict may not focus on stealing files, encrypting servers, o...