{"id":2937,"date":"2026-09-29T11:09:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:09:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:09:03","slug":"ai-as-a-cyber-weapon-our-masterclass-at-dmexco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=2937","title":{"rendered":"AI as a Cyber Weapon: Our Masterclass at DMEXCO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not a classic topic for a digital marketing trade show and yet highly relevant to every one of us: at dmexco, Kurt Laabs, CIO, and Julius Bauer, Head of Business Development, of ePrivacy delivered a masterclass titled &#8222;AI as a Cyber Weapon \u2013 How the Digital Economy Can Protect Itself Against Autonomous Attacks&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A live hacking case made it clear: the use of AI is making cyberattacks significantly more efficient, more professional, and far more frequent. According to the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t5baa4d95.emailsys1a.net\/c\/107\/9466295\/9385\/0\/20698350\/613085\/08c67c6c12.html?testmail=yes\" target=\"_blank\">BSI-Threat Report<\/a>, more than 80% of reported cybercrime attacks target small and medium-sized enterprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>New attack vectors through AI:&nbsp;<\/strong>agent-to-agent attacks, prompt injection, system prompt exfiltration, tool and agent abuse, as well as phishing and deepfakes such as CEO fraud<\/li><li><strong>Rising damage costs:<\/strong>&nbsp;the cost per data breach is increasing significantly \u2013 social engineering remains the most common initial attack vector<\/li><li><strong>Risk of local AI models<\/strong>: they often have fewer safeguards in place, lowering the barrier to entry for attackers<\/li><li><strong>Penetration testing as an early warning system:<\/strong>&nbsp;simulated attacks for targeted vulnerability detection are becoming increasingly important<\/li><li><strong>Essentials for SMEs:<\/strong>&nbsp;training and awareness, clear AI policies, consistent access controls, regular penetration testing, and an incident response plan<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The contents of the masterclass are available upon request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re not sure where to start: feel free to reach out to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a classic topic for a digital marketing trade show and yet highly relevant to every one of us: at dmexco, Kurt<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=2937\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2938,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions\/2938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}