In their last blog, Rapid7 explored the broader rise of AI-enabled threats across ransomware, phishing, and nation-state operations. Now, they’re narrowing in on a specific piece of that evolution: how cybercriminals are using large language models to scale and automate their tactics.
AI in cybersecurity is no longer experimental. It’s embedded in workflows, transforming everything from alert triage to vulnerability scoring. But while defenders have begun to harness its power, so have attackers and they’re scaling faster than many security teams expect. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) designed specifically for cybercrime such as WormGPT, FraudGPT, and DarkBERT shows just how far threat actors are willing to go to scale operations.
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