51 seconds to breach: How CISOs are countering AI-driven, lightning-fast deepfake, vishing and social engineering attacks

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Fifty-one seconds. That’s all it takes for an attacker to breach and move laterally across your network, undetected, using stolen credentials to evade detection. Adam Meyers, senior vice president of counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, explained to VentureBeat just how quickly intruders can escalate privileges and move laterally once they penetrate a system. “[T]he next phase typically involves some form of lateral movement, and this is what we like to calculate as breakout time. In other words, from the initial access, how long does it take till they get into another system? The fastest breakout time we observed was 51 seconds. So these adversaries are getting faster, and this is something that makes the defender’s job a lot harder,” Meyers said. Weaponized AI demanding an ever-greater need for speed AI is far and away an attacker’s weapon of choi ... Read full article.