Infosec Decoded Season 4 #34: AI is too Expensive

With Doug Spindler and @sambowne@infosec.exchange

Fri, Apr 26, 2024

Doug Spindler

School athletic director arrested for framing principal using AI voice synthesis Remember Stuxnet?  Blackjack has created  "F U X N E T" AT&T: Data breach affects 73 million or 51 million customers. No, we won’t explain.

Sam Bowne

M-Trends 2024: Our View from the Frontlines (from Mandiant) Increased targeting of edge devices A more than 50% growth in zero-day usage over the same reporting period in 2022 More "living off the land" The median dwell time is now 13 days for non-ransomware investigations, the lowest it's ever been. 54% of organizations first learned of a compromise from an external source; 46% first identified evidence of a compromise internally The most common initial infection vectors were exploits (38%), phishing (17%), prior compromise (15%), and stolen credentials (10%) Are Your Passwords in the Green? A ChatGPT-size computer (10,000 GPUs) can crack an 8-character bcrypt hash in 5 days. Meta's value plummets as Zuckerberg admits AI needs more time and money How to Prevent War with China with Dmitri Alperovitch and Chris Krebs Dmitri predicts war with China in 2028.