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You only hear about the offensive side winning when the company can't prevent it from leaking. Rest assured, the only thing "calming down" in cybersecurity is the nihilism that nothing involving a human will ever be secure.

Not particularly. The only thing I have noticed in the past decade is the decline of the "American Hacker". Most groups are foreign but will partner with younger Americans for social engineering (ex. Scattered Spider). You just don't have people like Albert Gonzalez/Stephen Watt in America now. However, I suspect that many American hackers have shifted to targeting overseas countries that are not friendly with the US.

> You just don't have people like Albert Gonzalez/Stephen Watt in America now

I don't know what the state of big corps netsec is today but these guys had it somewhat easy. They got initial access through weak wifi then pivoted with SQL injects and such.

There's a lot of other stuff in the news.