Commvault says it's time to rethink resiliency as AI crooks leave victims in a 'dark, dead' state
AI-enabled cybercriminals have better tools and are inflicting more pain on their victims, wiping out virtual machines and hypervisors and leaving infrastructure in a "dark, dead" state after an attack, said Commvault Chief Technology Officer Brian Brockway.
"The majority of cyber cases that we've seen in the customer base have moved well beyond the breaking inside, and encrypting and corrupting some of your key files and folders, to taking over control of your entire VM environment, wiping out all VMs, destroying all hypervisors, blowing up the center and leaving you in basically a dark, dead state," Brockway told The Register.
Frontier AI is reshaping the threat landscape in two ways, he explained: advanced models are uncovering a deluge of software vulnerabilities, and attackers are exploiting disclosed flaws within minutes rather than weeks.
“The more unplanned work that has to be done to react to this, that's always going to challenge...
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