January 2024

Artificial intelligence, while creating efficiencies throughout the business world and beyond, has also helped escalate the sophistication, scale, and persistence of cyberattacks. Fileless malware, sophisticated attacks that infect the system through vulnerabilities in its legitimate programs, are experiencing record-breaking 1400 annual increases, thanks in large part to the efficiencies AI provides through state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms. In addition, subscription-based AI tools such as FraudGPT are on the rise offering budding threat actors a starter kit that automates attack creation and design. And, with weekly cyberattacks enjoying record global increases, it's easy to see the impact that generative AI tools are having on cybersecurity.