March 15, 2011 - Symantec, a cybersecurity company, published a blog post on March 13, stating that AI Agent(such as OpenAI's Operator) have broken through the limitations of traditional tools to assist withhackerLaunch phishing attacks, build attack infrastructure.
1AI cites a blog post in which the researchers emphasize thatThese AI tools are moving from "passive assistance" to "active execution"., becoming a new threat to cybersecurity.
Symantec found that AI embodiments can execute complex attack chains, including intelligence gathering, malicious code writing, and social engineering attack design. Attackers can bypass AI ethical constraints and manipulate intelligences to accomplish attack tasks through simple prompt engineering.
While AI was previously only capable of generating phishing emails or basic code, now it can even automate the attack infrastructure, significantly increasing the efficiency of attacks. stephen Kowski (SlashNext) recommends enhanced email filtering (deploying filtering systems that can detect AI-generated content), enforcing the principle of zero-trust (restricting least-privilege access to both users and AI intelligences), and targeting training for employees to to recognize AI-generated phishing threats.