How AI is enabling faster, more dangerous cyber warfare

Summary

Refrigerator hacks. $6.3 billion crypto heists . 14-country espionage campaigns carried out in just 11 days. All in the span of a week. Why it matters: State-backed hackers are finding new ways to launch cyberattacks at remarkable speed and scale, with AI and automation threatening to widen the gap between attackers and defenders. Driving the news: Hackers tampered with refrigeration system s at dozens of European grocery stores in one night earlier this week — raising temperatures and spoiling food in a sweeping attack some linked to Russia. "It's hard to imagine this is not the work of a…

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