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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

Why it matters

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.

What to do

Review mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-respond SLAs against a compressed AI-enabled attack timeline.

Board brief

AI is accelerating attacker workflows faster than most defensive SLAs anticipate — response-time benchmarks need revisiting.

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