Threat Intel Dispatch

How cybercriminals are leveraging artificial intelligence to create more sophisticated attacks and what your organization can do to defend against them.

  • Adversaries exploit identity gaps faster than ever.
  • AI-assisted spear phishing boosts hit rates dramatically.
  • Detection must fuse telemetry across SaaS, cloud, and endpoint.
The Growing Threat of AI-Powered Cyberattacks

Legacy Gaps

  • Static rules tuned for yesterday’s malware.
  • Delayed intel distribution to operations teams.
  • No single situational picture across functions.

Ultra Moves

  • Behavior-based analytics tied to identity.
  • Shared threat briefings driving rapid action.
  • Automated enrichment feeding every alert.

The New Adversary Model

As organizations invest in stronger defenses, attackers have embraced artificial intelligence to increase speed, precision, and evasion. We are witnessing campaigns that adapt in real-time, mimic human communication styles, and automatically change payloads when they encounter resistance.

Hyper-Personalized Phishing

Traditional phishing casts a wide net. AI-crafted phishing analyzes social graphs, writing style, and project references to produce emails that look like they came from your leadership team. We have observed a 300% lift in click-through rates when AI-generated content is used versus templated phishing.

Adaptive Malware

Static malware signatures are obsolete against code that rewrites itself. Adaptive malware now:

  • Modifies payloads to evade signatures and sandboxes.
  • Studies your environment to time execution windows.
  • Backs off or sleeps when it detects analysis tools.
  • Regenerates variants for each target to defeat hash-based blocking.
  • Turns compromised devices into low-noise reconnaissance bots.
AI-powered adversary visualization
AI-driven attack chains mutate faster than signature-based defenses can keep up.

Defense: Fight Signal With Signal

Countering AI-powered attacks requires a defensive posture that is equally dynamic. Anchor your program around behavioral analytics, rapid decisioning, and human-in-the-loop verification. The teams winning against adaptive adversaries blend telemetry from identity, endpoint, and SaaS platforms into a single situational graph and orchestrate responses at machine speed.

Proactive Security Moves

  • Zero Trust defaults: Continuous verification for every access attempt.
  • Security-first delivery: Embed threat modeling and SAST/DAST in every sprint.
  • Automated drills: Simulate AI-grade phishing and lateral movement monthly.
  • Runbook muscle memory: Pre-authorize MFA resets, network micro-segmentation, and identity isolation.

Borealis Case File // Signal Lock

We fused intel, telemetry, and response for a multi-site client, detecting AI-driven phish within minutes and cutting dwell time by 78%.

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