The "scaling law for cyberattacks" finding in Import AI 450 deserves more attention than it's getting. If offensive capability scales predictably with compute the way language modeling does, then the cost curve for nation-state-grade attacks is about to collapse toward commodity pricing. That's not a theoretical risk — it's a procurement problem every critical infrastructure operator is already behind on.
The parallel to what happened with generative text is exact: everyone watched capability improve for three years and assumed the deployment lag would give them time to adapt. It didn't. Security teams are about to learn the same lesson the publishing and customer service industries learned, except the failure mode isn't a cheaper competitor — it's a breached grid or a poisoned software supply chain at scale.
The poisoned security scanner incident is probably an early proof of concept more than an isolated event. Attackers understand that the fastest path through hardened infrastructure is through the tools defenders trust most.
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