ZeroFox Intelligence Assessment - How GenAI is Changing the Cyber Threat Landscape

Product Serial: A-2024-03-06a

TLP:CLEAR

In this assessment, ZeroFox Intelligence researchers outline how GenAI is changing the cyber threat landscape, including how threat actors may leverage GenAI-enabled tools to enhance the efficiency, efficacy, and scale of their operations.

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Executive Summary

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) models offer vast potential in enabling mass automation, economic growth, scientific advances, and communication. However, there are also numerous security risks arising from its development and deployment, including ethical concerns, societal impacts, and use by nefarious cyber actors for malicious purposes. Adoption of GenAI-enabled technologies by corporate enterprises will also very likely introduce new vulnerabilities into organizations’ infrastructure and undermine secure-by-design principles.
With emerging technologies and tools getting widespread and significant media and public attention, much of the discussion around the threat from GenAI is misleading, unclear, and unhelpful.
At least in the short to medium term, GenAI will very likely serve as a force for both good and evil; the rapid development of new technologies will be added to the repository of tools used by threat actors to conduct their attacks as well as to the arsenals security personnel use to mitigate threats.