The future of cybersecurity is essentially a digital version of "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots" that pits offensive- and defensive-minded AI against each other—or at least that's the impression given by an NBC report on how the industry views AI.
"In recent months, hackers of seemingly every stripe — cybercriminals, spies, researchers and corporate defenders alike — have started including AI tools into their work," the report said. "LLMs, like ChatGPT, are still error-prone. But they have become remarkably adept at processing language instructions and at translating plain language into computer code, or identifying and summarizing documents."
So AI has proven useful in social engineering attacks like the North Korean tech worker scheme, sped up the rate at which Google's researchers can discover vulnerabilities, and found ways to game the HackerOne leaderboard. NBC also reported that Russian hackers have started embedding AI in malware used against Ukraine to "automatically search the victims’ computers for sensitive files to send back to Moscow."
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