Year in Review: AI based threats
Summary: Cisco Talos' 2024 Year in Review, produced with Robust Intelligence (now a Cisco company), found that generative AI did not rewrite the cybercrime playbook in 2024 but scaled up social engineering, refined phishing, and automated tasks such as OSINT gathering. Talos states the groundwork is being laid for 2025, when agentic AI and automated vulnerability hunting could pose significant challenges for defenders.
What you should know: Talos frames 2024 as preparation rather than the attack itself, with agentic AI and automated vulnerability hunting named as the coming challenges - meaning the capability gap defenders face in 2025 is being built now, not then.
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- Topics
- Phishing & Social Engineering
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