{"id":222571,"date":"2026-03-11T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/did-cybersecurity-recently-have-its-gatling-gun-moment\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T20:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:00:21","slug":"did-cybersecurity-recently-have-its-gatling-gun-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/did-cybersecurity-recently-have-its-gatling-gun-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Did cybersecurity recently have its Gatling gun moment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4143077\/did-cybersecurity-recently-have-its-gatling-gun-moment.html\">Did cybersecurity recently have its Gatling gun moment?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4143077\/did-cybersecurity-recently-have-its-gatling-gun-moment.html\">https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4143077\/did-cybersecurity-recently-have-its-gatling-gun-moment.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-11 07:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.csoonline.com\">www.csoonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the James River, Petersburg, VA, June of 1864, during the American Civil War, General Benjamin Butler, of the US Army, deployed a new weapon into the field that effectively altered the nature of kinetic battles. The later named \u201cSiege of Petersburg,\u201d was the first recorded instance of the Gatling gun being used in battle. With a rate of fire coming in at 200 plus rounds per minute, the opposing Confederate troops\u2019 muskets were a meager retort to the high velocity barrage of bullets directed at them.<\/p>\n<p>Much more recently, in September of 2025, 30 US companies and government agencies were hit with a cyberattack; an effective, large-scale cyber espionage campaign that resulted in data exfiltration, operational impact and undisclosed financial loss. What was unique and novel about this attack was its high degree of automation. The Chinese state-sponsored group (GTG-1002), thought to be responsible for the attack, leveraged Anthropic\u2019s\u00a0 \u201cClaude Code\u201d (a coding assistant) to execute an estimated 90% of the tactical operations with minimal human intervention.<\/p>\n<p>This was the world\u2019s largest agentic AI-driven attack to date. The hackers used \u201cprompt injection\u201d and role-playing techniques to manipulate the AI into believing it was performing legitimate defensive cybersecurity testing for a firm. This method was used to bypass the AI\u2019s safety protocols and generate malicious code.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4143077\/did-cybersecurity-recently-have-its-gatling-gun-moment.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did cybersecurity recently have its Gatling gun moment? https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4143077\/did-cybersecurity-recently-have-its-gatling-gun-moment.html Publish Date: 2026-03-11 07:04:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4143077-0-84537600-1773226983-graphe-tween-pmVLeaZekiY-unsplash.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,24],"class_list":["post-222571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222573,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222571\/revisions\/222573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}