• Using AI to defeat AI Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. • Generative AI and agentic AI are here to stay. • Although I believe that the advantages that AI brings to bad guys may be overstated, these new technologiesallow threat actorsto conduct attacks at a faster rate than before. • One capability that AI improves for threat actors is the ability to reconnoitre employees, discover their interests, and craft social engineering lures specific to them. • Being able to deliver tailored, targeted social engineering using the language and tone most likely to trick an individual is a useful tool for the bad guys. • However, if AI brings advantages to those who seek to attack us, we shouldn’t overlook the benefits that it brings to defenders and the new weaknesses it exposes in the bad guys.

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  • Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Generative AI and agentic AI are here to stay. Although I believe that the advantages that AI brings to bad guys may be overstated, these new technologies allow threat actors to conduct attacks at a faster rate than before. One capability that AI improves for threat actors is the ability to reconnoitre employees, discover their interests, and craft social engineering lures specific to them. Being able to deliver tailored, targeted social engineering using the language and tone most likely to trick an individual is a useful tool fo

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