Cybersecurity risks increasing because of GenAI Tools!

Darkreading.com reported that “Threat actors are increasingly leaning on generative AI (GenAI) tools to drive their malicious activity.”  The August 4, 2025 article entitled “Threat Actors Increasingly Leaning on GenAI Tools” (https://www.darkreading.com/remote-workforce/threat-actors-leaning-genai-tools) included these comments:

That's according to CrowdStrike's "2025 Threat Hunting Report," which was published today and outlines several trends across the threat landscape. For example, the number of voice phishing (or vishing attacks) in the first half of 2025 exceeded the number of attacks tracked in all of 2024, and hands-on keyboard intrusions increased 27% year over year. However, some of the most eye-opening stats concerned how threat actors are using GenAI to ehnance their operations.

Historically, many of the emerging attacks featuring GenAI involved prompt injections or some kind of basic social engineering trick (like using ChatGPT to come up with a phishing email), but that is changing quickly. Those basic concepts are being applied in more sophisticated ways, and we see "technical" AI attacks popping up more and more.

CrowdStrike highlighted this increasing sophistication in its report, emphasizing how attackers — such as those involved in IT tech worker scams — are using LLMs to enhance their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).

Can anyone be surprised?