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What's powering the 'Steroid Era' of cybercrime?
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- Safe Mode Podcast
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- Jan 15, 2026
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- 3148
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Summary
Greg sits down with Adam Myers, Head of Counter Adversary Operations at CrowdStrike, and Elia Zaitsev, CTO of CrowdStrike, to discuss why 2025 has been dubbed the "steroid era" for cybercrime due to AI's transformative impact on both attackers and defenders. The conversation reveals alarming statistics—a 442% increase in AI-powered voice-based phishing attacks, average adversary breakout times dropping to just 48 minutes, and 81% of intrusions now operating without any malware at all—while also exploring how adversaries are exploiting vulnerabilities faster and using AI to write exploits. However, the experts explain how AI is also empowering defenders through agentic security systems like CrowdStrike's Charlotte, which achieves 98.6% accuracy in detection triage, fundamentally shifting the economics of the defender's dilemma and offering hope that AI may ultimately benefit defenders more than attackers.