AI Fuels ‘Industrial’ Cybercrime as Time-to-Exploit Shrinks to Hours
Industrialized cybercrime delivers attacks with greater scale, speed and success. Defenders must match this with use of AI and automation. The post AI Fuels ‘Industrial’ Cybercrime as Time-to-Exploit Shrinks to Hours appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Industrialized cybercrime now delivers attacks with greater scale, speed and success. Defenders must match this with a similar use of AI and automation.
The industrialization of cybercrime began in the 1990s. As crime began to mimic the means, methods and motives of other industries, it effectively became a business. Business efficiency requires an efficient organization and more return for less effort; and cybercrime today achieves this through AI, automation and efficient data sharing.
FortiGuard has analyzed the current threat landscape targeted by cybercrime using telemetry from millions of sensors deployed worldwide since 2002. This analysis covers data gathered in 2025 (or the most recent 12-month window available per dataset) across multiple security domains and vectors of compromise.
Source: https://www.securityweek.com/ai-fuels-industrial-cybercrime-as-time-to-exploit-shrinks-to-hours/
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