{"id":633238,"date":"2026-10-01T14:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/633238\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:24:12","slug":"how-ai-is-changing-cyber-threats-and-cybersecurity-for-smbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/633238\/","title":{"rendered":"How AI Is Changing Cyber Threats\u2014and Cybersecurity\u2014for SMBs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-module-scss-module__UwInRW__text\" data-first-paragraph=\"true\">The cybersecurity outlook for small and medium-sized businesses can seem dire. Cybercriminal and nation-state cyberattacks appear to be on the rise, especially against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/cape-may-county\/2026\/08\/cyberattack-hits-2-nj-water-departments-serving-thousands-heres-what-happened.html\" class=\"ContentLink-module-scss-module__qKDjGa__anchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">utilities<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipc.com\/iranian-cyber-attacks-small-and-mid-size-businesses-are-still-large-enough-to-be-targets\" class=\"ContentLink-module-scss-module__qKDjGa__anchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">small businesses<\/a>. At the same time, there are new AI-enabled cyber risks, including AI agents from frontier labs breaching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/08\/06\/openai-hugging-face-black-hat\" class=\"ContentLink-module-scss-module__qKDjGa__anchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confinement<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/08\/01\/nx-s1-5914852\/anthropic-openai-models-hack-cybersecurity\" class=\"ContentLink-module-scss-module__qKDjGa__anchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attacking other companies<\/a>. Generative AI\u00a0and machine-learning models have also streamlined traditional attack vectors. Phishing lures are now <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2024\/05\/ai-will-increase-the-quantity-and-quality-of-phishing-scams\" class=\"ContentLink-module-scss-module__qKDjGa__anchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hyper-personalized<\/a>, vulnerability discovery is exponentially faster, and ransomware operations are automated and ubiquitous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cybersecurity outlook for small and medium-sized businesses can seem dire. Cybercriminal and nation-state cyberattacks appear to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,85,46],"class_list":["post-633238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}