More evidence is emerging about how AI is becoming part of the day-to-day workflow for cybercriminals, from building and refining tools to managing infrastructure and accelerating vulnerability research.
Drawing on recovered prompt logs, attack tooling, and threat actor conversations, research from Cisco Talos documents how AI is being used to develop malicious code, build fraud infrastructure, and accelerate vulnerability research and exploitation.
The study, released during the Black Hat USA conference, found AI systems guardrails were often ineffective.
Cisco Talos researchers write that threat actors frequently bypass guardrails with basic social engineering claims (“this is authorised t...