Generative AI Weaponized: Why Zero Trust Isn’t Enough

Wes Reisz and Shuman Ghosemajumder dive into how GenAI is turbocharging cybercrime—think “negative day” attacks, AI-powered deepfakes and hallucinations (hello, Gell-Mann Amnesia) that trick both users and systems, and even LLMs serving as clever password bypass tools. They argue that our old-school, scale-limited intuition about security just falls apart when fraudsters wield AI to automate and magnify every move.

The fix? Move beyond a mere “no defaults” mindset and bake in behavioral telemetry, continuous observation and game-theory-style defenses that force attackers into losers’ brackets. Align your threat models with real business incentives, watch for AI’s last-mile fraud tricks, and treat Zero Trust as a launchpad—not the finish line—for smarter, never-blindly-trusting architectures.

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