Brian Long, CEO of Adaptive Security, explains why everyday consumers should delete custom voicemail greetings to protect themselves against deepfake scam attacks.
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2027
Long: AI cyberattacks will disable critical infrastructure within two years
“I think what I'm really worried about is that when you're going to see this actually transition to people being actively hurt you know, hospitals being taken down, energy systems taken offline, other things like that. Obviously we've had cases of that already …”
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Long: Everyone will experience a deepfake attack within a year
“And I think that's gonna end up being the, you know, the answer that everyone's gonna experience it in the next year or so.”
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Long: AI will enable cybercriminals to deploy autonomous attack agents at scale
“Now with AI, they can lever themselves up and they can make, you know, infinite numbers of themselves as agents to go out and do these types of attacks autonomously. And it's going to be very, very profitable for them. So they're going to have lots of money to…”
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Long: US recorded over 100,000 deepfake attacks in 2024
“Where in the United States in 20, 24, we saw over a 100,000 deep fake attacks.”
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Long: Deepfake Russian official targeted the Senate Foreign Relations Chairman
“Example that I brought up in a recent post that I feel like was just kind of overlooked. Maybe you covered at some point. I don't know, but overlooked in the broader media was when someone used to deep fake in order to call up the chairman of the foreign relat…”
Insight
Long: Security training is ineffective unless it is jarring to users
“One, I think training should be personalized to you and it should really engage and hopefully be jarring to you. If it's not jarring in some way, then it's not really working.”