08 Oct In Fighting Cybercrime, Humans Need AI — And AI Needs Humans
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine
Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 8, 2025
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Last year, losses and damages from cyberattacks came to $9.5 trillion, according to Cybersecurity Ventures, making cybercrime the third-largest economy in the world — and growing, thanks to the widespread availability of AI tools to supercharge scams and accelerate attacks.
Anxiety over AI is widespread, from the potential for AI systems to be hacked and turned against its users to automated large-scale cyberattacks to AI-generated voice cloning for scam calls to deepfakes interfering in government and threatening national security.
In a survey conducted last month by the Harris Poll of 13,077 adults across 13 countries, nearly three-quarters agreed that AI will make it impossible to tell what’s real and what’s fake online, and only 13 percent of respondents were “very confident” in their ability to identify AI-generated threats or scams.
In fighting cybercrime, humans need AI — and AI needs humans. Human judgment, shaped by experience, empathy and intuition, helps connect the dots that machines might miss.
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