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Prediction: Developments in AI will lead to more sophisticated cyberattacks

Technology, Social Issues, Economics
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With the advancement of AI, we expect to see an increase in the sophistication of cyberattacks. Gone are the days of simple phishing emails sent to unwitting employees asking them to change their password, which often contain obvious errors that are easily detected. Threat actors are now using AI to create sophisticated attempts, such as deepfakes, to deceive employees into handing over their credentials. One recent example was an employee who transferred large sums of money following receipt of a deepfake video showing the company's senior executive instructing employees do so. We also anticipate that threat actors will use AI to assist with password decoding and data mining of large datasets to determine the value of the data that they have accessed and possibly exfiltrated. Datasets that were traditionally thought to be difficult to translate in Asia, e.g. Japanese or Korean, can now be easily and accurately translated with the improvement in AI-assisted translation tools. As a result, we anticipate that through the use of AI, attacks based on deception and abuse of confidence will become more sophisticated and increasingly convincing, which is likely to result in an increase in cyber claims of this nature.

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