DOD Cyber Crime Center official warns industry about AI-boosted cyberattack ‘kill chain’

A senior Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center official is seeing the quantity and sophistication of digital attacks increase, a trend that he suggests may be attributable to the emergence of new AI capabilities that can aid hackers.

Terry Kalka, director of the DOD-Defense Industrial Base Collaborative Information Sharing Environment (DCISE), noted that malicious cyber actors can now use AI to do a lot of their work.

“I don’t think we’ve gotten to a point where we get a report and we go ‘ah, that was an AI attack there.’ [But] the general trends you see about the increasing numbers of attacks, abandoning of traditional forms of malware, using more sophisticated attacking, living off the land, discovery of zero days — we’re seeing those trends increase pretty much commensurate with what you see in the public. And so we can connect that probably with the ratio of AI,” Kalka said Thursday at the Elastic Public Sector Summit presented by FedScoop.

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