The article discusses Mythos, an AI-powered capability that significantly accelerates vulnerability research and exploit development. While acknowledging its technical prowess, the author argues that the InfoSec industry is falling into a familiar cycle of overhyping new offensive tools while ignoring the fundamental security failures—such as phishing, stolen credentials, and poor network segmentation—that remain the primary drivers of real-world compromises.
Drawing parallels to historical shifts like the end of the exploit kit era and the decline of vulnerable browser plugins, the text suggests that long-term defense relies on architectural changes rather than just reactive patching. The real threat posed by Mythos is not a sudden surge of autonomous zero-days, but the compression of timelines between vulnerability discovery and weaponization, making exposure management and remediation speed more critical than ever.
