Low-Cost Substitutes Targeting High-Value Legacy Assets

Three unrelated dispatches trace the same attack pattern. Navy SSP is funding defenses against RPGs and drones that can disable surfaced SSBNs—expensive strategic platforms suddenly exposed to cheap, mass-deployable threats. HalluSquatting turns LLM hallucinations into a pull-based supply-chain attack that silently plants reverse shells inside nine production coding agents. Queue’s $18.6 M robotic kiosks automate dispensing and are already eroding the economic model of conventional pharmacies. In each case the defender’s cost structure and verification perimeter were built for a prior threat regime; the new vector arrives at orders-of-magnitude lower marginal cost and bypasses the old gatekeepers entirely.