{"id":359617,"date":"2025-09-23T11:51:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/?p=359617"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:27:14","slug":"sixty-two-percent-of-organizations-experienced-a-deepfake-attack-32-faced-an-attack-on-ai-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/sixty-two-percent-of-organizations-experienced-a-deepfake-attack-32-faced-an-attack-on-ai-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixty-Two Percent of Organizations Experienced a Deepfake Attack; 32% Faced an Attack on AI Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gartner Survey Reveals GenAI Attacks Are on the Rise<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Twenty-nine percent of cybersecurity leaders said their organizations experienced an attack on enterprise GenAI\u00a0application infrastructure in the last 12 months, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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The survey was conducted from March-May 2025 among 302 cybersecurity leaders in North America, EMEA and Asia\/Pacific.The survey found that 62% of organizations experienced a deepfake attack involving social engineering or exploiting automated processes, while 32% said they experienced an attack on AI applications that leveraged the application prompt in the last 12 months (see Figure 1). Chatbot assistants are vulnerable to a variety of adversarial prompting techniques, such as attackers generating prompts to manipulate large language models (LLMs) or multimodal models into generating biased or malicious output.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n
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Figure 1: Impact of GenAI on the Attack Landscape (Percentage of Respondents)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n
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Source: Gartner (September 2025)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Expert Take:<\/strong>During the\u00a0Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit\u00a0in London,\u00a0Akif Khan, VP Analyst at Gartner said: \u201cAs adoption accelerates, attacks leveraging GenAI for phishing, deepfakes and social engineering have become mainstream, while other threats \u2014 such as attacks on GenAI application infrastructure and prompt-based manipulations \u2014 are emerging and gaining traction.\u201d<\/p>\n

While 67% of cybersecurity leaders said emerging GenAI risks demand significant changes to existing cybersecurity approaches,\u00a0Gartner said a more balanced strategy is warranted. \u201cRather than making sweeping changes or isolated investments, organizations should strengthen core controls and implement targeted measures for each new risk category,\u201d said Khan.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gartner Survey Reveals GenAI Attacks Are on the Rise Twenty-nine percent of cybersecurity leaders said their organizations experienced an attack on enterprise GenAI\u00a0application infrastructure in the last 12 months, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. The survey was conducted from March-May 2025 among 302 cybersecurity leaders in North […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27765],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-359617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-artificial-intelligence-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}