January 24, 2024 at 12:01PM
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns that AI tools will intensify cyber attacks over the next two years. Both skilled and novice cybercriminals are leveraging AI for varied purposes, making attacks more sophisticated. AI’s impact will be evolutionary, enhancing existing threats, and potentially enabling advanced tools for cyber criminals and state actors by 2025.
Based on the meeting notes, the key takeaways are as follows:
1. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns that artificial intelligence (AI) tools will have a significant impact on cybersecurity, particularly in the next two years. This is expected to intensify cyber attacks, and both skilled and less skilled cyber threat actors are currently utilizing AI.
2. AI will enhance reconnaissance and social engineering, making them more effective and difficult to detect. It is also expected to allow sophisticated APTs to generate evasive custom malware more easily and faster.
3. The use of AI in cyber operations is expected to expand access to advanced tools for both cybercriminals and state actors by 2025, lowering entry barriers for novice cybercriminals and contributing to the global ransomware threat.
4. Generative AI and large language models will make it highly challenging for everyone, regardless of experience and skill level, to identify phishing, spoofing, and social engineering attempts.
These are the main points from the meeting notes provided.