Cybercrime
topic on 7 shows · 11 statements across 7 episodes
American Optimist 
Masters of Scale 
My First Million 
the Neon Show 
No Priors 
Invest Like the Best 
the a16z Podcast
11 statements about Cybercrime, every show
Gavin Baker: Families and companies must establish offline safe words against AI deepfakes
“Everybody needs to have a say for it. Everybody needs to go Leave your digital devices behind. Literally go to the ocean and have a family say for it or a company say for it. And it can't be one that can be like socially engineered.”
McDermott: Cybercrime is a $1 trillion per month global problem
“U.S. Is the world's largest economy, China's number two, and cybercrime is number three. It's a one trillion dollar a month problem.”
Mandia: Cybercrime and Espionage Will Shift from Human-Led to AI Agent-Led
“You're gonna have AI agents on offense, automating incredibly talented humans, you know, like literally that brain surgeon analogy. AI agents will be that, and you're gonna have swarms of agents that can communicate, and think, and instantiate normal, and lear…”
Sasi: Cybercrime is inversely proportional to economic conditions
“Crime is, or cyber crime or crime is inversely proportional to the economics. Right. When economy goes down, crime goes up. So tired to cities, the economy is bad. I mean, people have to trying to feed their family So they'll do any sort of means to make that …”
Gustafsson: Nation-state cyber weapons inevitably trickle down to commercial cybercrime
“Once you've created that technology, like the cat's out the bag, it then rolls into these enterprises that roll these attacks out at scale and mimic a lot of the business practice that we see in legitimate businesses, such as the As a services model that I ref…”
Campbell: AI will accelerate cybercrime growth beyond 7x in five years
“Basically cybercrime's exploding. And it's probably gonna accelerate even further with AI beyond this, like, seven X five year magnitude that I have in the spreadsheet.”
De La Garza: Cybercrime rapidly commercialized around 1999 to 2000
“Right around 19 99, 2000, there was just a rapid, rapid commercialization of cybercrime. You could go on to online chat rooms and just see people's personal information scale by, tens of thousands of credit card numbers scaling by, And starting to see kind of …”
Lusthaus: Eastern European tech graduates enter cybercrime due to capital shortages
“What we're seeing is a massive pool of very, very talented people who are highly educated, actually, have an excellent university system. These are people with, you know, degrees in math, science, technology, Engineering. And what's happening is they're coming…”
De La Garza: Chinese state hackers pivoted to ransomware after Obama's pressure
“Right around the time that President Obama got after the Chinese for their cyber activities against the United States on the intelligence side, a lot of those cyber actors kind of stood down and actually pivoted into cyber crime, right? So you started to see r…”
Lusthaus: Traditional organized crime is not taking over cybercrime
“So I think, you know, there's a lot of talk about traditional organized crime groups taking over cyber crime. The search I've done, I don't think that's the case. I think they're involved in certain ways, particularly on the money side of things. That's a part…”
De La Garza: Cybercrime represents a greenfield market subject to innovator's dilemma
“Sort of the innovator's dilemma applied to crime, right? They got their incumbency in the rackets that they're running, and they're not really looking to expand. Cybercrime is very much a greenfield opportunity. The same way that technology is, and you do see …”