Cyberside Chats: Cybersecurity Insights from the Experts

Hacker AI: Smarter Attacks, Faster Exploits, Higher Stakes

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AI isn’t just revolutionizing business—it’s reshaping the threat landscape. Cybercriminals are now weaponizing AI to launch faster, more convincing, and more scalable attacks. From deepfake video scams to LLM-guided exploit development, the new wave of AI-driven cybercrime is already here. 

In this engaging and eye-opening session, Sherri and Matt share how hackers are using AI tools in the wild—often with frightening success. You'll also hear about original research in which we obtained generative AI tools from underground markets, including WormGPT, and tested their ability to identify vulnerabilities and create working exploits. 

You’ll walk away with practical, field-tested defense strategies your team can implement immediately. 

Takeaways: 

  • Deploy AI Defensively: Use AI-powered tools for email filtering, behavioral monitoring, and anomaly detection to keep pace with attackers leveraging generative AI for phishing, impersonation, and malware obfuscation. 
    • Enhance Executive Protection Protocols: Implement verification procedures for high-risk communications—especially voice and video—to mitigate deepfake and real-time impersonation threats. 
      • Prioritize Recon Risk Reduction: Minimize publicly available details about internal systems and personnel, which attackers can scrape and analyze using AI for more targeted and convincing attacks. 
        • Adapt Third-Party Risk Management: Update vendor vetting and due diligence processes to ensure your software providers are proactively using AI to identify vulnerabilities, harden code, and detect malicious behaviors early. 
          • Train Your Team on AI Threat Awareness: Educate staff on recognizing AI-enhanced phishing, scam scripts, and impersonation attempts—including across multiple languages and perfect grammar. 
            • Update Incident Response Plans: Ensure your IR playbooks account for faster-moving threats, including AI-discovered zero-days, synthetic media like deepfakes, and AI-assisted exploit development and targeting. 

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              References: 

              • "WormGPT Easily Finds Software Vulnerabilities” https://www.lmgsecurity.com/videos/wormgpt-easily-finds-software-vulnerabilities 
                • AI Will Increase the Quantity—and Quality—of Phishing Scams: https://hbr.org/2024/05/ai-will-increase-the-quantity-and-quality-of-phishing-scams 
                  • A Voice Deepfake Was Used To Scam A CEO Out Of $243,000: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessedamiani/2019/09/03/a-voice-deepfake-was-used-to-scam-a-ceo-out-of-243000 

                    • #ai #aisecurity #aihacks #aihacking #aihack #wormgpt #cybercrime #cyberthreats #ciso #itsecurity 

                     

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