Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, has warned that cyberattacks are set to increase. In a post on X.com, he wrote, “Attacks will accelerate from here on”.

He said that six months ago he predicted “Mythos like capability will be widely available”, and that this is now happening.

Arora said attacks are being seen in the wild that exploit a critical vulnerability, use a harmless-looking social engineering trick, or chain together publicly available vulnerabilities in a “sniper strike”. “Incident responders have never been busier,” he wrote.

Attacks will accelerate from here on - We are there: Six months ago I said Mythos like capability will be widely available. It's happening. A critical vulnerability, a social engineering attack that looks innocuous, or daisy chaining publicly available vulnerabilities and conducting a sniper strike is all being witnessed in the wild. Incident responders have never been busier.

He said the threat is not more sophisticated, but wider: “attacks are not becoming more sophisticated, it's the same attacks, faster and by a lot more people”.

Finding a way into a system once took trial and error. It is now “trivial”, he said, with open source large language models (LLMs) helping.

Arora said more people are getting better at hacking because attacking has become easier, a factor he had not considered in his earlier assessment.

Arora said “you are as secure as your supply chain”. Insecure upstream or downstream partners with access to a company's systems could become the next route in, and he called marketplaces and supply chains an easier target.

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