The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in cyberattacks is quite limited, but the situation might change, and soon, with intrusions becoming much more advanced than current incidents, a new report warns.

The report, co-created by WithSecure, a Helsinki-headquartered cybersecurity and privacy company, the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency, and the Finnish National Emergency Supply Agency, analyzes current trends and developments in AI, cyberattacks, and areas where the two overlap.

According to its authors, it is safe to say today that cyberattacks that use AI are currently very rare and limited to social engineering applications. They are also used in ways that aren’t directly observable by researchers and analysts.

In other words, most current AI fields do not represent anything close to human-level intelligence and would not be able to automatically craft or launch cyberattacks.

However, in the next five years, attackers will likely develop AI capable of autonomously finding vulnerabilities, planning, and executing attack campaigns, using stealth to evade defenses, and collecting/mining information from compromised systems or open-source intelligence.

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