The dawn of AI-enabled cyber attacks makes it even more important for defenders to bring their A-game, particularly when it comes to getting the basics right
The dawn of AI-enabled cyber attacks makes it even more important for defenders to bring their A-game, particularly when it comes to getting the basics right
Organisations’ lack of attention to some of the most basic tenets of cyber hygiene not only continues to hamstring defenders but increasingly leaves the door wide not only to career cyber criminals using tried-and-tested tactics, but also less sophisticated actors exploiting artificial intelligence (AI) agents and models to power attacks at scale in an emerging phenomenon that experts at data observability specialist Splunk are calling vibe-hacking.
Speaking at a session held at this year’s Splunk.conf, taking place in Boston this week, Splunk cyber executives lamented poor security practice and called on businesses to “eat their cyber vegetables”, while acknowledging that CISOs have a mountain to climb to do so.
Ryan Fetterman, senior security strategist at Cisco Foundation AI and Splunk SURGe, his historical position had been to tell people not to get too worked up about AI changing the nature of cyber attacks, because threat actors were typically using such models to recreate the same methodologies favoured by humans, albeit at scale and more efficiently.
