There’s a remarkable paper from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, co-written with the security vendor Safe Security: “Rethinking the Cybersecurity Arms Race: When 80% of Ransomware Attacks are AI-D…
  • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
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    6 days ago

    The only nice feeling here is that of every joke we science students made about the management school being validated.

  • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish
    13·
    6 days ago

    That’s quite a remarkable claim. Especially when the actual number of attacks by AI-generated ransomware is zero. [Socket]

    If even a single case pops up, I’d be surprised - AFAIK, cybercriminals are exclusively using AI as a social engineering tool (e.g. voice cloning scams, AI-extruded phishing emails, etcetera). Humans are the weakest part of any cybersec system, after all.

    The paper finishes by recommending “embracing AI in cyber risk management”.

    Given AI’s track record on security, that sounds like an easy way to become an enticing target.

    • x0rcist@awful.systemsEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      Does this extremely funny case count? Regular malware that asks claude what it should steal from your workstation, using your claude credentials. (This is the only thing remotely resembling an AI powered attack I’m aware of and its very silly)

  • o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    (Looks at thumbnail)

    If the lying machine doesn’t know how many r’s are in strawberry, it probably can’t count the number of counties in Ireland, either.