AI Advances Elevate Threat Levels - Australian Cyber Security Magazine

Written by Michael McKinnon, CIO, Tesserent. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have given cybercriminals new tools that elevate the chance of successful cyber attacks. Advancements in AI enable cyber criminals to create increasingly sophisticated and harder-to-detect social engineering attacks. Governments and businesses need to be aware of these risks and must take steps now to mitigate them. Global socioeconomic differences have encouraged the creation of Internet scammers and con artists seeking to escape poverty.