Kurtz: LLMs empower less-skilled hackers to execute nation-state level cyberattacks
George Kurtz · The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026 · Jan 25, 2026 · at 53:47
George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike, discusses how artificial intelligence and LLMs lower the barrier to entry for cyber adversaries during a discussion at the World Economic Forum.
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“You're minting new adversaries because you don't have to have all the knowledge that you had to have in the past. You can ask any number of LLMs and you can get answers back. So what's happened is the attack timeline has been compressed. You can automate all of these sort of attacks and you can do it with a level of sophistication that looks like a nation state.”
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