Cyberattacks
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Cinnamon: Space defense should prioritize cyber and EW over kinetic strikes
“And that's why we want to avoid going into a situation where we have these, you know, capabilities in space where we're shooting down other satellites. I'd much rather use electronic warfare or cyber attacks or things like that.”
Long: Nearly 90% of cyberattacks still originate through human vectors
“The reality is that almost 90% of attacks still come through people.”
Arvatz: State backing gives military hackers unmatched offensive cyber capabilities
“What you can do as part of the government, it's something that you probably will never be able to do as a personal or one man show hacker. Because one, you get tools and budgets you won't find anywhere else. And two, you're not doing anything illegal. So you c…”
Cross: No evidence yet of adversaries using AI for complex attacks
“We haven't seen really any, I say evidence, right? Or of cases that are occurring now where that they're using AI to do very complex or compound attacks and surveys. We haven't seen that yet.”
Kolter: Cyber attacks present a clearer AI risk than biological threats
“Personally, I think cyber attacks are a much more clear and present threat than, for example, bio threats and things like this.”
Azhar: Nations will increasingly combine cyber warfare, disinformation, and physical force
“So people are worrying about other things, and then you let your tanks roll in and that recipe is, is increasingly going to be tried, tried and tested.”
Braga: Cyberattacks are the biggest external threat to Systematica
“What keeps me awake at night is a cyber attack, okay? I'm petrifying. We, over here, we spend so much effort in tightening up cybersecurity of our firm, educating everybody on cybersecurity.”
Hurst: Cyberattacks on Health Tech Data Are an Inevitable Certainty
“Cyber attacks are no longer a thing of will it happen, but it's more of a question of when it's going to happen. I think if you take that mindset, then you know that you're going to be targeted because you have key data that Malicious people are after, and so …”
D'Amato: Most steps in a cyberattack reuse familiar tactics
“An attack isn't made up of one action. It's usually made up of multiple actions. And so what you may see is one different action in that attack, and probably multiple, maybe 10 or 12 of the steps that you've seen in previous attacks. So in most cases, you're l…”
Olson: Small non-state groups now possess former nation-state cyber attack capabilities
“We see individual small groups of people, as you said, gaining the capabilities of what were nation state capabilities in terms of the ability to carry out attacks from just a few years ago.”
Andreessen: Virtually all value and cyber attacks will move online
“And so the reality is we're gonna live in a virtual world. We're gonna live in an online world. We're gonna live in a software world. Because we're gonna live in that world, that is where, you know, virtually all of the value is going to be, which means that, …”
Two-thirds of all cyber attacks target small and midsize businesses
“What might surprise you to learn, though, is that two thirds of cyber attacks are on small to medium sized businesses.”
Sophisticated cyberattacks feature active human attackers in the loop
“Almost all attacks have a human in the loop, an attack in the loop, was intelligent, it's dedicated, and is patient.”
Falkowitz: Companies take a year to discover cyberattacks after phishing starts
“These companies are only learning about these attacks a year after this initial phishing starts, right?”
Falkowitz: Cyberattacks operate as long campaigns, not instantaneous events
“A lot of my colleagues and senior executives from the government will often talk about cyber attacks as being at speed of light or network speed, right, is, is the example. But I think the reality is when you look at the data and from what we observe that, tha…”