Security News > 2020 > November > How AI Is powering a new generation of cyber-attacks
Now, just as legitimate businesses use AI to disrupt key sectors, hackers are using AI to automate their attacks, driving new efficiencies into their operations.
Using AI to automate these attacks gives them a virtual digital army of attackers, all operating at computer speed.
These capabilities now allow attackers to launch targeted, sophisticated email attacks that appear indistinguishable from legitimate communication.
Attackers can refine those attacks by using keywords that are more relevant to that user or organisation.
Over 80 percent of Forrester's respondents believe that we need tools that 'think' the same way these new AI-powered attacks do.
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