Artificial intelligence may be enhancing cyber threats, but the defensive approach to those AI-amplified attacks remains the same, a top FBI official said Tuesday. “We have seen actors both criminal and nation-state, they’re absolutely using AI to their advantage,” said Jason Bilnoski, deputy assistant director at the FBI’s cyber division. “But the way attacks unfold have not changed. Cyberattacks still follow basic steps. It just becomes an incredible speed now.” The best way to deal with those attacks is to implement all the traditional defenses, like those the FBI has been emphasizing as part of its Operation Winter SHIELD media campaign, he said. “Don’t worry about the speed and capability” of AI attacks, Biloski said at a Billington Cybersecurity conference. “If you’re focused on the basics, it’ll help prevent the actual intrusion from occurring.”

Full report : AI is speeding up attacks but otherwise not changing their fundamental nature, said FBI official Jason Bilnoski.