A senior Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center official is seeing the quantity and sophistication of digital attacks increase, a trend that he suggests may be attributable to the emergence of new AI capabilities that can aid hackers.
Terry Kalka, director of the DOD-Defense Industrial Base Collaborative Information Sharing Environment (DCISE), noted that malicious cyber actors can now use AI to do a lot of their work.
“I don’t think we’ve gotten to a point where we get a report and we go ‘ah, that was an AI attack there.’ [But] the general trends you see about the increasing numbers of attacks, abandoning of traditional forms of malware, using more sophisticated attacking, living off the land, discovery of zero days — we’re seeing those trends increase…
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