Security News > 2024 > January > AI expected to increase volume, impact of cyberattacks

All types of cyber threat actor are already using artificial intelligence to varying degrees, UK National Cyber Security Centre's analysts say, and predict that AI "Will almost certainly increase the volume and heighten the impact of cyberattacks over the next two years."

Although AI is used by all types of cyber threat actors, it will particularly benefit less-skilled ones, as it will enhance their ability to carry out social engineering attacks and create convincing phishing emails.

"Generative AI can already be used to enable convincing interaction with victims, including the creation of lure documents, without the translation, spelling and grammatical mistakes that often reveal phishing. This will highly likely increase over the next two years as models evolve and uptake increases," reads the report.

Threat actors will be able to detect vulnerable devices much faster, and the ability of AI to summarize data will help them identify the most valuable data before exfiltration.

With the high possibility that AI models will become increasingly sophisticated over time, cyber resilience is bound to face numerous challenges in the coming years.

The NCSC assessment of the impact of AI on the success of cyber operations has been published following the Bletchley AI Safety Summit held in November 2023, which gathered international leaders to examine benefits and risks of AI models.

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