AI-powered cyber threats are reshaping security landscapes. Businesses that don’t evolve will be vulnerable to increasingly sophisticated attacks – here’s how to stay ahead.
Cybercriminals are weaponizing artificial intelligence (AI) across every attack phase. Large language models (LLMs) craft hyper-personalized phishing emails by scraping targets’ social media profiles and professional networks. Generative adversarial networks (GAN) produce deepfake audio and video to bypass multi-factor authentication. Automated tools like WormGPT enable script kiddies to launch polymorphic malware that evolves to evade signature-based detection.
These cyber attacks aren’t speculative, either. Organizations that fail to develop their security strategies risk being overrun by an onslaught of hyper-intelligent cyber threats — in 2025 and beyond.
To better understand how AI impacts enterprise security, I spoke with Bradon Rogers, an SVP at Intel Security and enterprise cybersecurity veteran, about this new era of digital security, early threat detection, and how you can prepare your team for AI-enabled attacks. But first, some background on what to expect.
Why AI cyber security threats are different
AI provides malicious actors with sophisticated tools that make cyber attacks more precise, persuasive, and challenging to detect. For example, modern generative AI systems can analyze vast datasets of personal information, corporate communications, and social media activity to craft hyper-targeted phishing campaigns that convincingly mimic trusted contacts and legitimate organizations. This capability, combined with automated malware that adapts to defensive measures in real-time, has dramatically increased both the scale and success rate of attacks.
Reference: ZDNet