AI: Friend or Faux in Cybersecurity? Huntress Tradecraft Tuesday

This blog-style report examines the dual-use effects of generative AI on cybersecurity: it outlines attacker tactics (deepfakes, AI-crafted phishing and social engineering, AI-promoted malware tools, polymorphic malware and scaling of scams) and defender applications (threat detection/analysis, context enrichment, compliance automation, and threat simulation). The piece emphasizes current limitations of AI—poor binary decisioning, hallucinations, and prompt-injection risks—and recommends retaining human oversight and revising verification processes to mitigate AI-enabled threats.