AI Gives Cybercriminals a Dangerous Time Advantage
A former threat actor details how generative AI shrinks reconnaissance-to-exploitation cycles, giving defenders less dwell-time margin than legacy threat models assume.
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Former cybercriminal Brett Johnson provides a look inside the mind of a threat actor and discusses where AI provides the most value for attackers.
Editorial Analysis
If AI cuts the attacker's preparation window from days to hours, European enterprises relying on next-business-day triage face materially higher breach risk.
Review mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-respond SLAs against a compressed AI-enabled attack timeline.
AI is accelerating attacker workflows faster than most defensive SLAs anticipate — response-time benchmarks need revisiting.
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