Cybersecurity Is Entering Its Most Dangerous Era: When Machines Attack Trust Itself

For years, cybersecurity was understood through familiar battlefields: malware, ransomware, phishing, insider threats, zero-days, nation-state espionage. Defenders built firewalls, SIEM platforms, EDR stacks, IAM controls, SOC teams, and playbooks around these known patterns. But a deeper shift is now underway. The next era of cyber conflict may not focus on stealing files, encrypting servers, or crashing networks. It may focus on something more powerful: D