AXIOS August 12, 2025
Underestimate how quickly adversarial hackers are advancing in generative AI, and your company could be patient zero in an outbreak of AI-enabled cyberattacks.
- Overestimate that risk, and you could quickly blow millions of dollars only to realize you were preparing for the wrong thing.
The big picture: That dichotomy has divided the cybersecurity industry into two competing narratives about how AI is transforming the threat landscape.
One says defenders still have the upper hand.
- Cybercriminals lack the money and computing resources to build out AI-powered tools, and large language models (LLMs) have clear limitations in their ability to carry out offensive strikes.
- This leaves defenders with time to tap AI’s potential for themselves.
Then there’s the...
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