In the first months of 2026, more than 33,000 cyberattacks descended on small and medium-sized businesses across the digital landscape — not through brute force, but through imitation. Criminals had learned to wear the faces of the AI tools that modern businesses had come to trust, turning the very instruments of productivity into vectors of harm. The fivefold surge from the previous year was less a technical escalation than a cultural one: wherever human attention flows, predators follow.