2024: AI-based arms race enters the next round
Artificial intelligence and automation provide attackers and defenders with crucial springboards for successful action. These are tools such as AI-based voice chatbots or AI spear phishing tools. As the year nears its end, it is time, as always, for WatchGuard Technologies to look to the future and focus on potential attack trends and developments in the IT security environment. The WatchGuard Threat Lab sees, among other things, malicious prompt engineering tricks that target Large Language Models (LLM) as having a great chance of causing trouble in 2024. The same goes for “vishers” who carry out their malicious operations with...