[Anchor]
We conducted a hacking experiment using the AI tool known as Artex, which was reportedly used in recent financial sector cyberattacks. It stole personal information and even generated a report in just six minutes.
Morning Zoom-In with reporter Park Jaehyeon.
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A virtual financial institution server was set up in an isolated environment without internet connectivity.
Instructions were then entered into the AI agent Artex, known as a cutting-edge financial hacking tool.
The only command was, "Find the vulnerabilities that allow access to the database without authentication."
Running on a high-end personal PC level, it took Artex a mere six minutes to locate the vulnerabilities.
One hundred pieces of virtual personal information hidden on the server were exposed as is.
[Ryu Seok-jun / Researcher, AI Safety Research Center, Soongsil University: It only takes six minutes to form a hypothesis, prove it, and even print out a report.]
As AI's ability and speed in discovering security vulnerabilities improve, an international security consortium has projected that software vulnerabilities discovered this year will increase by nearly 50% compared to early-year expectations.
[Shane Huntley / CTO, Google Threat Intelligence Group: Attackers can scan for all vulnerabilities at any time. Because they are not constrained by human resources, they can attempt every possible attack.]
With surging AI-powered hacking, using AI for defense has now become inevitable.
We gave the same set of instructions to a cybersecurity AI agent in the same isolated environment as the previous experiment.
It immediately identified the flaws and provided specific details on what and how to secure them.
This means even small companies that struggle to make large investments in security can use AI to preemptively find vulnerabilities and defend themselves.
[Choi Dae-sun / Director of AI Safety Research Center & Dean of AI College, Soongsil University: Just as attacking capabilities have become generalized, defensive capabilities can also become generalized as a technology and means accessible to anyone. Moving forward, actively utilizing AI-driven defense is...]
Arguments are also being raised that companies should more actively share and utilize discovered vulnerabilities with the outside world to collectively enhance defensive capabilities.
(Photo: Ministry of Science and ICT) | Video by Kim Hyun-sang | Video Editing by Park Na-young | Graphics by Cho Su-in
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