Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, has warned that cyberattacks are set to increase. In a post on X.com, he wrote, “Attacks will accelerate from here on”.
\n\nHe said that six months ago he predicted “Mythos like capability will be widely available”, and that this is now happening.
\n\nArora said attacks are being seen in the wild that exploit a critical vulnerability, use a harmless-looking social engineering trick, or chain together publicly available vulnerabilities in a “sniper strike”. “Incident responders have never been busier,” he wrote.
\n\nAttacks will accelerate from here on – We are there: Six months ago I said Mythos like capability will be widely available. It's happening. A critical vulnerability, a social engineering attack that looks innocuous, or daisy chaining publicly available vulnerabilities and conducting a sniper strike is all being witnessed in the wild. Incident responders have never been busier.
\n\nHe said the threat is not more sophisticated, but wider: “attacks are not becoming more sophisticated, it's the same attacks, faster and by a lot more people”.
\n\nFinding a way into a system once took trial and error. It is now “trivial”, he said, with open source large language models (LLMs) helping.
\n\nArora said more…
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