One in four organizations victims of AI data poisoning

A new study finds 26 percent of surveyed organizations in the UK and US have fallen victim to AI data poisoning in the past year. This is where hackers corrupt the data that trains AI systems by planting hidden backdoors, sabotaging performance, or manipulating outcomes to their advantage. The research from information security platform IO (formerly ISMS.online) surveyed over 3,000 cybersecurity and information security managers in the UK and US, and finds that that 20 percent of organizations have also reported experiencing deepfake or cloning incidents in the last year. Beyond deepfakes, AI-generated misinformation and disinformation tops the list of… [Continue Reading]