Hint: It's the 'the largest' maker of a key computer component
An unnamed tech business hired IBM's X-Force penetration-testing team to break in and search for security vulnerabilities in their networks.
IBM's red team has been building out its AI capabilities. This includes using generative and predictive AI for penetration testing from a platform the team code-named Vivid, which they used to help with the unnamed computer component manufacturer break-in.With the automation that we've built out, we managed to hack into that company within eight hours
In this particular case, the X-Force crew and its AI tooling found a flaw in the manufacturer's HR portal, exploited this to upload a shell, and then waited to see if they would get caught. They didn't, so they pushed further, escalating their privileges on the host, and used a rootkit to cover their tracks and avoid being detected.
"The attack paths that we needed to leverage were actually there day one, it just took us two weeks to put it together because there's just this fire hose of information and it's really difficult to know what to focus in on," he explained. "Everyone was in agreement that in two years, the models will be ten-times more powerful that they are today," Thompson said, adding that the discussion during the event centered around"how do we leverage advancements in AI security to better defend us when our adversaries are going to be using that to attack us? It's a scary thought.
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