AI lets hackers scan 10,000 systems in hours, Armadin's Peña warns

Peña's warning came at an event that was itself about the startups trying to keep pace with attackers. The Cyber 60 list, released at the New York Stock Exchange event, names companies including open source security firm Chainguard and AI security company Irregular, and the gathering's message was that AI has become the attacker's best tool. Peña pointed to a cluster of recent vulnerabilities — Citrix, BeyondTrust, PHP and Node.js — all surfacing within a three- or four-week window, which he called unprecedented emerging threats. Against that backdrop, the speed advantage he described is the crux: work that once took a year of human effort can now be done in hours, putting the burden on defenders to match a tempo they were not built for.