Welcome to cybersec hell

2026-07-24 — 2026-07-24

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Wherein It Is Recounted How Autonomous AI Agents Have Usurped the Labour of Human Cybercriminals, and How Prediction Markets Furnish a Novel and Troubling Business Model for Their Misdeeds.

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Figure 1

It begins. Agentic AIs now automate cybercrime faster and better than humans can.

1 AI Agents are good at this

2 Business models

Prediction markets provide a new business model for cybercrime. What could go wrong?

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