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Gustafsson: Defenders using AI have a home turf advantage over attackers
“Because ultimately, the defender has the home turf advantage. They are the people that know the business and its culture and its digital identity better than anyone else. And by leveraging AI, they're able to arm those defenders with that knowledge and stay on…”
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Gustafsson: 'Secure by design' cannot prevent novel, unpredictable cyberattacks
“A lot of this is based on the idea that The attack will be known, and it will be in some way predictable or repeatable, and the reality is the vast majority of these attacks are novel and unpredictable, and so you can never eradicate all risk by building in th…”
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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…”
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Gustafsson: Detect deepfakes by analyzing behavioral urgency, not authenticating media
“So it's not about saying, how do I authenticate this image that I'm receiving necessary? But what is the behavior that has been trying to be driven out of this communication? Are they trying to create a sense of urgency? Are they steering you to a behavior tha…”
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Gustafsson: Cybercriminals increasingly adopt 'as-a-service' business models for malware
“We're seeing a huge rise in the number of sort of what we call as a service tools. So ransomware as a service, malware as a surface, all the tools of the attackers are now available”
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Gustafsson: Dark web malware providers offer customer support helplines
“There are helplines for the criminals to use to help them say, oh, I'm trying to do this malware as a service. I'm having a little problem, so I press button A or press button B. This is big business that's operating on the other side of the dark web.”
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Gustafsson: One-third of Davos businesses reported cyberattack financial losses
“Davos, you know, at the World Economic Forum, a third of the businesses there were saying that they have suffered financial impact from significant cyber threats in the last 12 months.”
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Gustafsson: Generative AI creates linguistically complex and convincing phishing emails
“We're seeing phishing emails being crafted using these tools. The linguistic complexity of those emails has got far broader as it becomes much easier for people to communicate in a way that feels much more natural and human.”
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Gustafsson: Deepfake attacks will expand into Slack and Microsoft Teams
“Extrapolating that further, as we think about, you know, future innovations, making it much easier to create these deep fakes, whether it's an audio or audio visual, whether it's your Slack or your Teams or your chatting interface, whatever it is, all of which…”
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