JAKARTA - As the adoption of AI accelerates in Asia Pacific, the implications extend far beyond corporate productivity and customer experience.
Kaspersky experts outline how AI developments will reshape the cybersecurity landscape by 2026, both for individual users and businesses.
Companies are increasingly discussing the risks of synthetic content (deepfake) and training employees to reduce the likelihood of becoming a victim. The quality of deepfakes will improve through better audio. The visual quality of deepfakes is already high, while realistic audio remains a major area for future growth. Efforts to develop reliable systems to label AI-generated content will continue. Therefore, it will take new technical and regulatory initiatives aimed at addressing this issue will likely emerge. Online deepfakes will continue to grow but remain a tool for advanced users. The increasing realism and ability to manipulate video through virtual cameras make attacks more convincing. Open source models will approach closed models in many cyber security-related tasks, creating more opportunities for abuse. The boundaries between legitimate and false AI-generated content will become increasingly blurred. AI can already generate well-crafted phishing emails, convincing visual identities, and high-quality phishing pages. AI will become a cross-chain tool in cyber attacks and used in most stages of the cyber crime chain. AI will increasingly support various stages of attacks, from preparation and communication to assembling malicious components, investigating vulnerabilities, and deploying tools.AI will become a more common tool in security analysis and affect the way SOC teams work. As a result, specialists will switch from manually searching for data to making decisions based on prepared contexts."AI is a powerful tool for both attack and defense, and the ability to manage it safely will certainly affect the future of cybersecurity," commented Vladislav Tushkanov, Group Manager of Research Development at Kaspersky.
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