A global cybersecurity conference in Dublin has heard how AI is supercharging cyber attacks to the point where hackers can disrupt an organisation in less than 30 seconds.<\/p>\n
Cyber investigators from the FBI and the US Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) were among those speaking at “Zero Day Con”.<\/p>\n
Representatives from Ireland’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) were also in attendance.<\/p>\n
It comes amid concerns over an increase in cyberattacks linked to the current conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
Last month, the Cork base of medical technology company Stryker was impacted by a global cyberattack targeting the firm’s operations.<\/p>\n
Handala, an Iran-linked hacking group, claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n
Cybersecurity chiefs have warned of the possibilities of more Iran-linked cyberattacks.<\/p>\n
Ireland will also be on high alert for threats as it prepares to take over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union in July.<\/p>\n
Zero Day Con is organised by cybersecurity company Smarttech247.<\/p>\n
Its CEO Raluca Saceanu told delegates that businesses in Ireland are increasingly finding themselves caught in the crossfire of global hybrid warfare.<\/p>\n
“The window of time between an attacker getting into a system and causing serious damage has collapsed,” Ms Saceanu said.<\/p>\n
“What used to take hours now takes minutes and in the fastest cases observed, less than 30 seconds.”<\/p>\n
“The tools being used to do this are no longer the exclusive preserve of sophisticated nation-states. They are available commercially on the dark web, powered by AI, and used by criminal groups operating like professional businesses,” she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A global cybersecurity conference in Dublin has heard how AI is supercharging cyber attacks to the point where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-423653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}