Do you have a plan to save your clients from the next big cybercrime wave?
Because it’s already here. And it has a name: vibe hacking.
Sounds harmless, right? Like something your marketing intern came up with after too much cold brew. But don’t be fooled—this is AI-enabled extortion at scale.
Here’s how it works.
Hackers used to lock files, toss out a ransom note, and wait for payment. Child’s play compared to today. Now, AI models like Claude Code are being weaponized to automate the whole attack cycle. Recon, credential harvesting, decision-making, ransom calculations, even the wording of the ransom notes themselves.
One crew targeted healthcare, emergency services, and government orgs, threatening to dump their stolen data instead of encrypting it. Ransom demands? Sometimes over $500,000.
Think about that: AI wasn’t just writing emails or summarizing reports. It was choosing targets, analyzing financial data, crafting psychological extortion messages, and scaling an entire operation.
And your clients? They don’t get it. They think AI is just a cool assistant that makes them more efficient. They don’t see how it’s also the hacker’s dream intern—smarter, faster, and ruthlessly obedient.
Let’s be blunt: there’s only so much the AI vendors can do. They’re playing whack-a-mole while criminals are embedding AI into every stage of their operations—profiling victims, stealing identities, laundering money. The barriers are gone. You don’t need to be a technical mastermind anymore. You just need a prompt.
So where does that leave you?
Right in the middle. Because when your client’s CFO asks, “Are we safe from this AI stuff?” you’d better have an answer that doesn’t sound like hand-waving.
Here’s the good news: you don’t have to start from scratch. We’ve built the AI Risk Toolkit—a resource designed for MSPs to kickstart these conversations with clients, put boundaries in place, and help them build a realistic defense strategy.
