Trends to watch: Cyber risk in 2024

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Davis Hake, Resilience

As the cyber threat landscape continues to evolve year over year, it is pivotal to monitor trends and track their impact on the global cyber ecosystem. Attempting to understand why threat actors do what they do helps us begin to uncover how they will behave in the future. In order to maintain cyber resilience against new and emerging threats, this level of attention and understanding is necessary.

Adversaries will continue to leverage large language models (LLMs) to accelerate the time to ransom.  

Resilience cybersecurity experts predict that in 2024, adversaries will continue to leverage Large Language Models(LLMs) to accelerate human engineering tactics and time to ransomware attacks. According to a report by NordVPN, there is increased interest by potential criminal actors as the volume of posts regarding ChatGPT in DarkWeb forums has increased 145% from January to February 2023. 

LLMs can be leveraged to create more convincing and effective social engineering or phishing attacks. They can also be used to impersonate organizations or individuals and create fictitious engagement on social media platforms. The future of social engineering attacks will require a…

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