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AI ’ s writing capabilities , cyberattackers , including those looking to launch ransomware , can now strike faster with better accuracy , as the spelling errors and grammar issues in phishing emails are more easily eliminated , making attacks more evasive and convincing .
For years , everyone has been trained to spot email attacks by looking for bad grammar and spelling mistakes , a deficiency that is likely non-existent today given what attackers can create using generative pretrained language models , and in some cases , in different spoken languages , even using automated scans of social media to make attacks more customised .
Security researchers are already showing how attackers can use the codegeneration capabilities of generative AI to write malicious code for exploiting software vulnerabilities . With these changes , the skill required to start a ransomware attack could be reduced to constructing a malicious AI prompt and having access to Ransomware-as-a-Service tools , leading to a whole new wave of attacks .
Researchers are also seeing many incidents where underresourced organisations seem to fall victim to ransomware multiple times because their business continuity and disaster recovery plans are far behind . We have seen attackers going after backup systems especially if they are hosted in the same domain and run as virtual systems . p
Source : Fifth Annual Threat Spotlight on Ransomware , Barracuda Networks
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