Arms Race: AI's Impact On Cybersecurity
Symantec, Thursday, November 20th, 2025
New whitepaper explores how both attackers and defenders are using the latest AI technologies to achieve their goals.
- Attackers are already using AI, particularly to create phishing materials and write code.
- The arrival of Agentic AI is more likely to affect the quantity of attacks more than the quality
- Defenders have longer experience in using AI
The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has shaken up the world of cybersecurity for both defenders and cybercriminals, presenting both new challenges and powerful defensive opportunities, as the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter team explore in a new whitepaper.