Cybercriminals, spies, researchers, and corporate defenders are increasingly using AI, feeding into an escalating cat-and-mouse game of finding software flaws
good and bad actors leveraging AI in cybersecurity arms race Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search : News Flash from the Past: Bad Actors Use New Technology and Adapt Quickly Bluesky: Kevin Collier / @kevincollier : I've rolled my eyes for years at hyperbolic claims of AI revolutionizing cyber, but especially after Vegas this year I think it's now time to call it: Hackers of every stripe are using LLMs now. Jake Williams / @malwarejake : Respectfully, I think a large part of that is the innate drive to understand how LLMs work, and as a result what they will (and critically, won't) be good at. — This is a group that grew out of learning how a system worked specifically so they could find poor engineering decisions and break it. Jake Williams / @malwarejake : In that same vein, I regularly see hackers finding LLMs fitting their workflows where businesses struggle to do the same. — I think that's more about the user than the tool (and in some situations, even the use case). @wylienewmark : I'm sorry to do this with a quote-skeet of a reporter I actually respect, but: USING LLMS IS NOT THE SAME THING AS “HACKING WITH AI”. LLM usage to support basic software development is now utterly ubiquitous but the fear we've seen of “AI-enabled intrusions” still has not come to pass. …