AI-Driven Cyberthreats No Longer Just Theory

Nearly two-thirds (60.9%) of organizations have encountered AI-powered cyberthreats in the past year. These threats are scaling fast, with a 2x increase reported by 64.2% of organizations and a 3x increase reported by 28.9%. Critically, this new category of AI-enabled threats is more challenging to identify. Attackers are using highly customizable approaches targeting individuals in an organization via identity theft vectors, with some leveraging social media to State of Cybersecurity in Asia/Pacific: From Constant Risk to Platform-Driven Resilience create high-quality fake personas to deceive critical members into performing actions that compromise the organization’s security.