From Experts to Anyone: How AI Made Hacking Affordable

AI has not created new attack vectors but has slashed their operational costs by orders of magnitude—converting attacks that once required elite specialists and millions in resources into subscription-based services available for mere pennies per exploit. The December 2025 breach of Mexican government agencies by a solo attacker wielding jailbroken Claude Code reveals the true security threat: not sophisticated zero-day exploits, but the democratization of proven attack techniques that were previously gatekept by cost and expertise.