360 Founder Zhou Hongyi: "Hacker Agents" Turn Hackers into "Super Hackers"

On December 10th, the 15th Annual Conference on Cybersecurity Vulnerability Analysis and Risk Assessment (VARA Conference) opened in Tianjin. Zhou Hongyi, the founder of 360 Group, stated that the existence of vulnerabilities has completely changed the rules of the cybersecurity game. Attackers no longer need to launch a brute force attack; they can simply exploit a vulnerability, bypass traditional defenses such as firewalls through a malicious email or a special data packet, and directly invade the system. Currently, we are entering an era where everything is programmable and software-defined, with government operations, city management, business operations, and even people's daily lives all built on code, making the destructiveness of vulnerabilities unprecedented