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Don’ t Underestimate Today’ s Enterprising Adversaries

Watch any nature program, and you’ ll quickly discover what happens to animals that underestimate their adversaries. They become prey. The same principle applies in cybersecurity – the adversary is advancing so fast that you can’ t afford to underestimate them.

Our latest research demonstrates that adversaries are becoming more efficient, focused, and businesslike in their approach – in many ways, more like the enterprise organizations they prey upon. That’ s why our team of security analysts, experts, and authors chose“ the enterprising adversary” as the theme for this year’ s CrowdStrike Global Threat Report.

Take generative artificial intelligence( genAI), for instance. Highly effective adversaries across all major categories – nation-state, eCrime, and hacktivist – have become early and avid adopters. The“ force multiplier” impact of off-the-shelf chatbots has made genAI a popular addition to the global hacker toolbox.

Along with legitimate organizations, easy access to commercial large language models( LLMs) is making adversaries more productive, too. It’ s shortening their learning curve and development cycles, and it’ s allowing them to increase the scale and pace of their activities. Though this report indicates that malicious

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