MIT Technology Review AI reporting · 14h ago · 3/5
Supercharged scams ↗
Criminals have adopted generative AI to automate and scale cyberattacks, including phishing emails, deepfakes, malware modification, and vulnerability discovery, lowering barriers to entry for attackers. Anthropic's Mythos model reportedly found thousands of critical vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers, prompting the company to delay its release and establish Project Glasswing for defensive purposes. Microsoft and other companies are deploying AI-powered defenses; Microsoft blocked $4 billion in scams and fraudulent transactions between April 2024 and April 2025, though experts warn that more sophisticated attacks may outpace current protections.
AI is lowering the barriers for would-be attackers, providing them with an ever-evolving arsenal of new capabilities, and making it faster, cheaper, and easier than ever before for them to try to infiltrate their targets.
Between April 2024 and April 2025, it managed to block $4 billion worth of scams and fraudulent transactions, many of which may have been aided by AI content.