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Bankless · Saturday, October 24, 2026

Security Experts Say AI Has Scaled Hacking and Lowered Costs

Hari Mulackal and Odysseus Lamtzidis explain that AI-driven cyber capabilities and plummeting costs have transformed hacking from a bespoke, expensive skill into an automated factory process that is scaling across the internet.

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“Hacking has now become scalable where you can build a factory where you can give it a website. You can give it bankless.com and we'll go hack it. You don't even have to think about cost because it will cost like $10 as opposed to like two weeks of human time where now you need to think about ROI.”
Hari
“With a lot of the AI capabilities, it's like there is this exponential where either the capability or the cost keeps going down.”
Hari
Heard on Bankless — “Black October! What Is Happening to the Internet? | Hari Mulackal & Odysseas Lamtzidis”, published Saturday, October 24, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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