Ep. 146: The Executive AI Series : Part 3 : When AI Turns Offensive: The New Cyber Battlefield

About this episode

This episode discusses how AI is transforming the cyber threat landscape, making attackers more efficient and sophisticated.

AI doesn’t just make businesses faster — it makes attackers faster too. In Part 3 of The Executive AI Series, the discussion moves from shadow adoption to active exploitation. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a productivity tool. It has become a force multiplier for cybercrime. We break down how AI is transforming the threat landscape: AI-driven phishing that is personalized, scalable, and nearly indistinguishable from legitimate communicationMalware and ransomware were built, refine...

People in this episode

Host: Paul Di Liegro

Topics covered

• AI in cybersecurity
• cybercrime
• threat landscape
• AI-driven phishing
• malware
• ransomware

Keywords

• AI
• cybersecurity
• phishing
• malware
• ransomware
• cybercrime
• threat landscape

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AI, cybercrime, Malware, ransomware

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