Beyond the Cyber Surface: Unveiling AI-Powered Tactics of Hacktivist Movements and Protection Strategy

This session discusses the increasing threat of political and religious hacktivist threat actors. We will demonstrate how these groups make sophisticated use of Telegram and other social networks to communicate their messages and innovative tactics. In addition, we will explore their use of AI to create powerful attack tools that go undetected by standard protections.

In the second part of the session, we will focus on why businesses fail to protect against these new tools. Specifically, how hacktivists have mastered the use of advanced evasion techniques that disguise their attack vectors to bypass standard network and application detection tools. We will also review a new attack vector called Web DDoS Tsunami, understand why it bypasses all prevention tools and how to mitigate is using AI.