The future is automated, says Trend Micro bod
Infosec techies should prepare to both fend off AI attacks and welcome the technology into their armoury of tools, reckons Trend Micro's director of cybercrime research.
The security world is standing on the brink of an AI-powered arms race, claimed Rob McArdle at the firm's Cloudsec conference in London today.
Speaking on stage alongside Rik Ferguson, Trend's refreshingly British research veep, McArdle warned that "deepfake ransomware" was one potential attack vector of the near future.
Describing the technique, McArdle said an attacker could use deepfake tech to create a video with blackmail potential: the obvious use case is something involving nudity, or perhaps someone making outrageous statements. The attacker could then upload that video somewhere and send the mark a ..
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