Having spent the last 20+ years in cybersecurity, helping scale cybersecurity companies, I’ve watched attacker methods evolve in creative ways. But Kevin Mandia’s prediction about AI-powered cyberattacks within a year isn’t just forward-looking, the data shows we’re already there. The Numbers Don’t Lie Last week, Kaspersky released statistics from 2024: over 3 billion malware attacks globally, with defenders detecting an average of 467,000 malicious files daily. Trojan detections jumped 33% year-over-year, mobile financial threats doubled, and here’s the kicker, 45% of passwords can be cracked in under a minute. But volume isn’t the whole story. The nature of threats is…
Read More