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MIT releases, then quietly removes, nonsense AI cybersecurity paper

pivot-to-ai.com MIT releases, then quietly removes, nonsense AI cybersecurity paper

There’s a remarkable paper from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, co-written with the security vendor Safe Security: “Rethinking the Cybersecurity Arms Race: When 80% of Ransomware Attacks are AI-D…

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That’s quite a remarkable claim. Especially when the actual number of attacks by AI-generated ransomware is zero. [Socket]
If even a single case pops up, I'd be surprised - AFAIK, cybercriminals are exclusively using AI as a social engineering tool (e.g. voice cloning scams, AI-extruded phishing emails, etcetera). Humans are the weakest part of any cybersec system, after all.
The paper finishes by recommending “embracing AI in cyber risk management”.
Given AI's track record on security, that sounds like an easy way to become an enticing target.
- Does this extremely funny case count? Regular malware that asks claude what it should steal from your workstation, using your claude credentials. (This is the only thing remotely resembling an AI powered attack I'm aware of and its very silly)