Bitdefender’s Perspective on Weaponized AI and Its Impact on Cybersecurity

Taking cybersecurity seriously is one of the biggest things users can do to protect their company from cyberattacks. While discussing with Bogdan “Bob” Botezatu, Director of Threat Research at Bitdefender, to get a deeper understanding of what is happening today, including the ever-growing role that Artificial Intelligence is playing in the criminal arena as well as in security.

It has been Botezatu’s job to defend Bitdefender customer data from ransomware attacks, as well as to carry out research into IoT vulnerabilities for the past 20 years. He has worked in the cybersecurity industry during this time. 

As a result of artificial intelligence, many people tend to envision a sci-fi world in which robots will be taking over human society and their daily routines as its known today. It’s important to keep in mind that artificial intelligence is already here, improving everyday technologies like e-commerce, surveillance systems, and many others daily. 

It is a belief that cybercriminals prefer to target anyone, regardless of whether they can gain immediate financial gain from it. Rather, simply infecting someone’s computer is of great importance, since having access to that device is very useful to them.

Cybercriminals can take advantage of passwords held by them by renting these passwords to other cyber-criminal organizations to send spam or use them as proxies to disguise various illegal activities. 

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