As AI improves, experts feel there will always a bigger or more innovative way of trying to get through a company’s defences, but those defences are getting a boost from the technology, too
Denis Villeneuve has worked in cybersecurity for 15 years but seldom have the threats he’s come across felt as personal as they do these days.
The attacks were made possible by artificial intelligence-based software, which has become even more affordable, accessible and advanced in recent years. His reasoning lies in the sheer number of attacks some companies face and the resources it takes to handle them or ward them off. The analyst would also study whether the person behind the address was already known to the company and the extent of their attack.
Sometimes the attackers resort to a practice known as “pig butchering” to fill in any information they are missing. For smaller targets, AI does a lot of the heavy lifting, freeing attackers up to focus their attention on high value victims.
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