What This Means for Your Organization:
- With the evolution of AI, hackers are also evolving their methods of attacking businesses.
- Automation plays a big role when it comes to hacking and targeting businesses with language models such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini.
AI has grown in popularity and used massively over the last few years, and with this popularity comes ways to exploit its usefulness to generate stronger attack methods for hackers. AI like ChatGPT can be weaponized to assist in attacking businesses, so it is more important than ever to understand attack methods, and how they work when powered with AI.
| Attack Method | How It Works With AI |
|---|---|
| Social Engineering and Phishing | AI can help hackers adapt their emails to specific scenarios and people by letting the data models ingest information about their victim. Since many phishing attempts can be identified by bad grammar, bad use of domains etc., AI aids in avoiding these issues by generating far more believable emails and tactics. |
| Deepfakes | With the rapid improvement of AI language models, visuals have now also been becoming a prevalent feature for most AI models. Grok, Gemini, and ChatGPT can generate images and now videos helping hackers create believable deepfakes of company employees, such as CEOs. This allows them to create videos to attach to phishing emails in order to convince employees to give up sensitive company information. |
| Malicious Code Development | While some hackers have coding experience and expertise, many do not have the ability to create complex malicious code to infect business systems. AI can drastically improve code, and write fully built out code for hackers that they can then use to spread malware. AI deepens the threat since it has such sophisticated knowledge on coding, this paired with a maliciously acting hacker can be very dangerous. |
| MFA and Captcha Solvers | AI is a great tool for automating tedious tasks and while it might be helpful for everyday use, hackers also take advantage of this automation. Simplifying workflows for hackers such as MFA and Captcha solving allows them to gain access to accounts easier through brute forcing repetitive logins, and with the help of AI they can solve Captchas with higher success rates. Since many AI models are improving their image analysis and understanding, hackers can use this and solve many captchas over shorter time periods when compared to manually solving them or using outdated captcha solvers that do not rely on AI image analysis. |
| Automated Vulnerability Discovery | Another way hackers use AI is by using algorithms to automatically scan for and detect vulnerabilities within software, hardware, and networks connected to your business. By doing so, they not only save themselves a lot of time, but AI sometimes detects vulnerabilities before they become mainstream allowing the hacker to take advantage of the detection. |
Knowing what threats there are and how they work will help you target specific attacks hackers might use on your business. Understanding what potential gaps there might be in your security system is crucial in improving and securing it from modern attack tactics like the use of AI.
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