UK warned AI will speed up ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure

The NCSC⬟'s State of the Cyber Nation report says AI adoption by hostile actors is highly likely to increase the scale and efficiency of ransomware, social engineering and vulnerability exploitation against UK critical national infrastructure within two years. The report expects AI to speed up existing attack methods rather than run fully autonomous end-to-end attacks. It names China and Russia as the main state-linked threats and says up to 88% of attacks start from phishing, exploitation of public-facing applications, misuse of valid accounts, or exploitation of external remote services.

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