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GENERATIVE AI IS A LOOMING CYBERSECURITY THREAT
Researchers have not identified any AI-engineered cyberattack campaigns, yet,
but they say it’s only a matter of time before an AI system is dominant enough
in the market to draw attention.
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IBM X-Force hasn’t seen any AI-engineered campaigns, yet, but mentions of AI and
ChatGPT are proliferating on the dark web.
The X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2024 report identified over 800,000
references to the emerging technology on illicit and dark web forums last
year. While X-Force does expect AI-enabled attacks in the near term, the real
threat will emerge when AI enterprise adoption matures.
Right now, there are simply too many AI systems at play.
Though OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become synonymous with generative AI, a competition
is afoot to determine which large language models are the most effective and
transparent. In a test of 10 popular AI models, Google’s Gemini outpaced
competitors, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Meta’s Llama 2. The test, created by
Vero AI, measures the visibility, integrity, optimization, legislative
preparedness, effectiveness and transparency of models.
Businesses are leaning on their cloud and software providers to facilitate AI
adoption. Coca-Cola has a $1.1 billion partnership with Microsoft to use its
cloud and generative AI services. And General Mills used Google’s PaLM 2 model
to deploy a private generative AI tool to its employees.
To this point, cybercriminals are focused on ransomware, business email
compromise and cryptojacking, X-Force found. But the threat intelligence firm
expects that when a single AI technology reaches 50% market share — or when
there are no more than 3 primary AI offerings — the cybercrime ecosystem will
start developing tools and attacks to go after AI.
AI CAN BOOST ALREADY DOMINANT ATTACK CAMPAIGNS
In February, Microsoft reported that hackers from North Korea, Iran and Russia
were using Open AI to mount cybersecurity attacks, which the company then said
they shut down.
That’s not surprising, Melissa Ruzzi, director of artificial intelligence at
AppOmni, said. Generative AI can turbo boost social engineering and phishing
attacks.
Threat actors can tailor sophisticated phishing attacks by scraping data about
users from all corners of the internet, matching pieces of information that
might seem similar to know more about a person. For example, they could identify
an Instagram handle that isn’t exactly a person’s real name.
This isn’t just about sending spoof emails either, Ruzzi said. AI can be used to
pretend to be a real person applying for a job at a company, which includes a
nicely written cover letter and a PDF resume.
Hackers can also use AI to determine how long a position has been open “so they
can see how desperate you are,” she said.
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Threat actors can use generative AI to crack passwords, increase the launch
volume of previously successful attacks, and get around cybersecurity defenses,
she added. The sky is, unfortunately, the limit.
AI COULD BE USED TO BEND THE TRUTH
Generative AI is also being used to fuel disinformation and misinformation
campaigns, said Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s senior vice president of counter
adversary operations. In the Crowdstrike 2024 Global Threat Report, the company
tracked AI images related to the Israel and Hamas war.
While the faked images are relatively easy to spot — in some faked images,
people having six fingers, for example — it’s still being used, and most likely
will continue to be refined through 2024 to disrupt elections. According to
Crowdstrike’s research, more than 42% of the global population will be voting in
presidential, parliamentary and/or general elections this year.
“We’re already seeing the use of generative AI deep fakes for misinformation,”
Meyers said, including fake President Biden robocalls that were deployed during
the recent New Hampshire primaries.
That doesn’t mean corporate cybersecurity professionals are off the hook,
because attacks won’t just be contained in the political arena.
If someone can make a deep fake of a country president, said Meyers, they can
also potentially make a deep fake of a company president. A malicious actor
could use that deep fake on a Zoom call to get employees to do things like make
money transfers, and time it to when the hackers know, via social engineering,
that the president will be unavailable at that time.
“The volume of attacks that they can create and the quality of the attacks is
really starting to get kind of scary,” Ruzzi said.
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