Join the Cyber Policy Center on February 11 from 1PM–2PM Pacific for a fireside chat with Nicole Perlroth, and Nate Low. Stanford affiliates are invited to join us at 12:40 PM for lunch, prior to the seminar.  

Perlroth, in conversation with Nate Low, will discuss how the cyber threat landscape has transformed over the past decade, from the first outing of “APTs” stealing intellectual property, to personal data collection, to the “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once” attack scenario on our critical infrastructure. The United States is now seeing novel attacks from China, utilizing “zero days” and “living off the land” techniques to embed in our most vital systems, from telecommunications to water. Russia continues its infrastructure attacks and influence campaign, focused increasingly on division, particularly on the topic of energy, and Ukraine, but also continues to empower a sophisticated ransomware-as-a-service economy– utilizing America's own citizens in many cases– that has metastasized from one-off attacks on corporations to ransomware supply chain attacks that threaten the entire healthcare system (see Change Healthcare). Such third, fourth, even fifth, order attacks are our new norm. Generative A.I. has only expanded the attack surface, with deepfake-enabled social engineering attacks, Chat GPT written phishing scams and AI-augmented zero days. But these are just the threats we see. Below the surface lies the possibility of data theft, poisoning, model corruption and influence campaigns.