AI vs AI - Are Cybercriminals Or Organisations Winning?
information age, Monday, February 10th, 2025
Cybercriminals are using LLMs to enhance their attacks, making it harder for security professionals to even know they're under attack.
However, security teams and researchers are using GenAI to make themselves smarter and faster at finding security flaws at scale, argues Michiel Prins, co-founder at HackerOne
Since OpenAI's breakthrough in Large Language Models (LLMs), threats to organisations have skyrocketed. That's because whenever we make significant technological progress, bad actors also benefit: cybercriminals now use LLMs and generative AI to execute hyper-local attack playbooks at scale and obfuscate the traditional 'tells' that alert employees and organisations to attack.
We're in a metaphorical arms race with threat actors to make the best use of AI. So, who is winning?