In general AI makes sophisticated attacks much easier, especially if the devs aren’t even reading the code anymore.
It doesn’t need to be highly accurate or successful either. If it enhances a criminals ability to do sophisticated attacks 10x more often, their liklihood of success increases dramatically. Advanced cyber attacks are becoming a game of probability instead of skill.
I don’t think that’s quite right. If the article is correct, the compromised version of Homebrew that the first employee installed allowed them to find out information about the team, which helped with the subsequent social engineering attack. No AI so far.
The subsequent piece of malware the second employee installed during the fake interview process was designed to allow external access, so the attackers were able to remotely make use of internal AI systems that could perform privileged actions and open up bigger holes in the company’s security.
The title is quite misleading (see this comment), the actual hack happened because of social engineering.
As I read it the AI tool helped identify which people to socially engineer.
That makes it a heck of a lot more likely to succeed.
In general AI makes sophisticated attacks much easier, especially if the devs aren’t even reading the code anymore.
It doesn’t need to be highly accurate or successful either. If it enhances a criminals ability to do sophisticated attacks 10x more often, their liklihood of success increases dramatically. Advanced cyber attacks are becoming a game of probability instead of skill.
I don’t think that’s quite right. If the article is correct, the compromised version of Homebrew that the first employee installed allowed them to find out information about the team, which helped with the subsequent social engineering attack. No AI so far.
The subsequent piece of malware the second employee installed during the fake interview process was designed to allow external access, so the attackers were able to remotely make use of internal AI systems that could perform privileged actions and open up bigger holes in the company’s security.
But, mate, you can’t just crash and destroy a good circle-jerk. The kids were having so much fun talking out of their gas release valves