Threat actors combine tactics to optimize attack effectiveness

As a point of note, in a strict sense, there is no such thing as AI – yet, that is. There are very functional, focused, specific applications of mathematics combined with powerful computing backend infrastructures, but there is no true AI as of today. That term is one that is more a result of marketing spin and misunderstanding on the part of the general non-computer science population, based on movies and overhyped capabilities that simply do not exist. That being said, it does not mean that there are not a variety of very applicable uses for machine learning and powerful computational mathematics that can be leveraged for nefarious purposes.

Just as there have been massive innovations in areas such as self-driving cars, biometrics, data use, and a myriad of other applications, there are also innovations of a malicious nature in those same spaces. The AI space is no different. Innovation and exponential...