Predictions 2024 from cybersecurity vendors, Part 1

By Howard Solomon for IT World Canada
Thursday, December 28, 2023

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2024 will be a year dominated by artificial intelligence-created deepfakes and advanced phishing attacks, but also new AI-based detection applications to help defenders.

Ilia Kolochenko, chief architect at ImmuniWeb: While numerous reports predict a surge of the malicious use of generative AI by cybercriminals in 2024, it will probably be less significant than most of the alarmistic predictions. First, sophisticated cybercrime actors don’t really need GenAI to write malware or phishing emails, they already have advanced skills and experience that will easily outperform any AI-powered chatbots. Some simple tasks may be automated by GenAI, however, it will unlikely cause a tectonic shift in their well-established cybercrime business. Second, inexperienced cybercriminals and newbies may ask a chatbot to create a simple exploit, payload or even primitive malware, however, they will still need an abuse-proof infrastructure to host and operate it, money-laundering mechanisms, and many other instruments that no GenAI can build for them. Most likely they will end up detected, arrested, and imprisoned. More harm will come from imprudent cybersecurity professionals who will try to automate code and config writing with GenAI, eventually producing suboptimal code quality. With Infrastructure-as-a-Code (IaC) in a multi-cloud environment, a single error in code may cost millions. Read Full Article