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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. 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-theshelf 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 use of AI is growing, it remains largely iterative and evolutionary at this point in time. Only occasionally does it manifest as an entirely novel use case. But it is still early days. �

Our latest research demonstrates that adversaries are becoming more efficient, focused, and business-like 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

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