Finnish experts believe that attackers will start using AI to carry out deadly effective phishing attacks.
Prepared by Finnish security company WithSecure, the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the report analyzes current trends and developments in AI, cyberattacks, and areas where the two intersect. As the authors of the report say, attacks using AI are currently very rare and are carried out in such a way that researchers and analysts cannot observe them.
And even though now neural networks are not able to “think through” and launch cyber attacks, researchers believe that in the next five years, attackers will develop AI algorithms that can independently find vulnerabilities, plan and conduct malicious campaigns, bypass security systems and collect information from hacked devices.
According to WithSecure, the first AIs for cyberattacks will come from state hackers, and then fall into the hands of smaller groups that will begin to use them en masse. Therefore, information security specialists should already start working on systems that will have to protect against such attacks.
The authors of the report noted that cyber-attacks using AI will be especially effective in the area of impersonation, a tactic that is most often used during phishing and vishing attacks.
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