Why Traditional Cybersecurity is Already Obsolete

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After spending more than 20 years in cybersecurity, and helping to expand the scope of cybersecurity companies, I saw the methods of the attacker developing in creative ways. But Kevin Mandia’s predictions about the electronic attacks operating in Amnesty International within a year not just as an aspiration, the data shows that we are already present.

The numbers do not lie

Last week, Kaspersky released statistics from 2024: more than 3 billion attacks of harmful programs worldwide, as defenders discovered an average of 467,000 harmful files per day. Trojan discoveries jumped by 33 % on an annual basis, mobile financial threats have doubled, and here Kicker, 45 % of passwords can be broken in less than a minute.

But the folder is not the entire story. The nature of threats is mainly turned when artificial intelligence becomes a weapon.

It really happens. This is the evidence

Microsoft and Openai have confirmed what many of us-their actors in the nation-state are already using Amnesty International for electronic attacks. We are talking about big players: the massive bear in Russia using LLMS to collect intelligence information on satellite communications and radar technologies. Chinese groups such as Typhoon Typhoon create social engineering content in multiple languages and perform advanced activities after the smell. Crimson Sandstorm designs the emails of Iranian hunting, while Emerald Sleet Research Presentialities and North Korea nuclear programs.

What is the most anxiety? Researchers at Kaspersky now find models of malicious artificial intelligence hosted on public warehouses. Internet intelligence criminals use hunting content, developing malware, and launching DeepFake’s social engineering attacks. The researchers are witnessing the weaknesses of LLM, the supply chain attacks from artificial intelligence, and what researchers call “Shadow AI”-the unauthorized employee’s use of artificial intelligence tools that leak sensitive data.

But this is just the beginning

What we see now is to help the attackers expand the scope of operations and translate harmful software instructions into new languages and structures that have not been efficient before. If the nation -state developed a really new use, we may not discover it until it is too late.

We are heading towards independent electronic weapons that have been built as a purpose to move unveiled within environments. These are not the textual kiddie attacks, we are talking about artificial intelligence agents who can conduct survey, determine weaknesses, and carry out attacks without any human being in the episode.

The challenge exceeds just faster attacks. These independent systems cannot be reliable between legitimate infrastructure and civil objectives, and what security researchers call “the principle of discrimination”. When the artificial intelligence weapon targets a power network, it cannot define the difference between military communications and the adjacent hospital.

We need global rule now

This calls for global governance and agreements similar to nuclear weapons treaties. Currently, there is mainly an international framework that governs the weapons of artificial intelligence. We have three levels of independent arms systems already under development: anthropomorphic systems with human monitoring, semi -independent systems that share previously specific targets, completely independent systems that choose and include goals independently.

The frightening part? Many of these systems can be kidnapped. There is nothing like an irreplaceable self -government system, and the danger of non -governmental actors is controlling through the rivalry attacks.

Fire fight against fire

There are a number of cyber security companies that are adopting new ways to defend against these attacks. Take AI SOC analysts from companies such as Dropzone AI, who enable the difference to achieve investigations at a 100 % alert, to address a huge gap in security operations today. Or companies like natoma, which build solutions to identify, monitor, secure and rule artificial intelligence agents in the institution.

The key is to fight fire with fire, or in this case, Amnesty International with artificial intelligence.

The next generation of social (security centers) that combines the automation of artificial intelligence with human experience to defend the current and future situation of electronic attacks. These systems can analyze the attack patterns quickly the machine, automatically link the threats via multiple carriers, and respond to accidents faster than any human team that can run. They do not replace human analysts – they enhance them with the capabilities we need.

The risks cannot be higher

What makes this different from previous cyber developments is the possibility of mass losses. Independent electronic weapons that target critical infrastructure, hospitals, energy networks and transportation systems can cause an unprecedented scale. We no longer talk only about data violations; We are talking about artificial intelligence systems that can literally endanger lives.

The preparation window is closed quickly. Mandria’s timetable for one year looks optimistic when you think that criminal organizations are already experimenting with improved attack tools of artificial intelligence using less controlled artificial intelligence models, not the models that focus on safety from Openai or anthropology.

The bottom line

Increasing security teams with artificial intelligence agents not only the future, it’s now. Amnesty International will not replace our nation’s defenders; Their partners will be around the clock throughout the week in defensive organizations and our great nation. These systems can monitor the threats around the clock, processing huge amounts of threat intelligence, and responding to the attacks in the millions again.

But this partnership model does not work unless we start building it now. Every day we delay giving opponents more time to develop independent offensive capabilities while our defenses remain largely dependent on humans.

The question is not whether the online electronic attacks will come, whether we have defenses operating with the same Amnesty International when they do so. The race is running, frankly, we are already behind us.

Douglas Gotai has spent more than 20 years limiting cybersecurity companies including Kaspersky, Pwnie Express and Sophos, and as an investor for cybersecurity helps startups to achieve market leadership. Today, Dog is the founder and the largest artificial intelligence employees in Cubic Squared, the Agent Ai Marketing Agency that helps cybersecurity and defense companies achieve rapid growth and domination of category through strategies that work with artificial intelligence materials.