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Whitepaper

The AI-Fication of Cyberthreats

Defenders are not the only ones who have noticed that artificial intelligence can accelerate and improve security operations. Threat actors across the spectrum from financially motivated criminal groups to nation-state operators are actively incorporating AI into their attack toolkits, using it to generate more convincing phishing content at scale, automate reconnaissance and vulnerability discovery, create deepfakes for social engineering attacks, and develop evasion techniques that adapt dynamically to the defensive tools they encounter. This whitepaper examines the AI-fication of cyberthreats in detail, drawing on threat intelligence to characterize the current state of AI-assisted attack techniques, model how these techniques are likely to evolve, and identify the detection and defense strategies that are most effective against adversaries who are using AI as aggressively as defenders.