From Vibe Coding to Vibe Hacking: How AI Is Magnifying Cyber Risk for SMBs
AI did not invent cybercrime. It made familiar attacks faster to create, easier to customize, and cheaper to scale — and small businesses are right in the blast radius. There is a tempting myth spreading through the tech world right now: that artificial intelligence is creating a completely new class of unstoppable super-hacker. That makes for dramatic headlines, but it misses the more immediate risk for small and midsize businesses. The real story is more practical — and more dangerous. AI is not replacing attackers. It is upgrading them. It is helping bad actors write more convincing phishing emails, build better scam scripts, automate reconnaissance, generate attack tooling faster, and adapt their tactics with less effort and less skill than before. For SMBs, that matters because most attacks were already not “advanced” in the Hollywood sense. They were effective because they exploited trust, speed, distraction, weak credentials, exposed syste...