InfoSecurity Europe 2025, which begins in London today, Tuesday, June 2nd, will this year be dominated by the rapidly growing threat posed by the weaponization of artificial intelligence (AI).
New to the conference is an AI and cloud security stage, which will exhibit ways organizations can counter the threat posed by AI. AI-driven cybersecurity also dominated the recent RSA conference in San Francisco. Over the last 12 months, threat actors haven’t wasted a moment capitalizing on the global fascination with Artificial Intelligence. As AI’s popularity surged over the past year, cybercriminals have been quick to exploit the new technology to carry out cyberattacks on an industrial scale.
InfoSecurity Europe predicts four major cybersecurity trends for 2025. The first among these is the weaponization of AI, which the report calls “a double-edged sword”. While defenders are adopting cybersecurity tools to boost their resilience, attackers are also using the new technology to make their campaigns more sophisticated.
“Overall, it is acknowledged that cybercriminals are using AI to generate more mature social engineering campaigns, allowing them to send mass emails in multiple languages which do not have the tell-tale signs of spelling errors,” says InfoSecurity Europe.
MoD to fast-track cyber experts
This year’s InfoSecurity Europe in London is also taking place against a backdrop of heightening geopolitical tensions and the UK’s pledge to invest in developing cyber capabilities on the battlefield, with cyber experts being deployed alongside combat soldiers. Their task will be to scramble enemy drone signals, take down drone “swarms” and launch counterattacks should the UK be involved in another war.
On Day Two of InfoSecurity Europe 2025, Wednesday, 4 June, diplomat and former MP Rory Stewart will, therefore, be delivering a talk on geopolitics, cyberconflict, and national security in his presentation, “Shifting Sands: Geopolitics, Threat and the Future.”
Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) is also expected to fast-track the recruitment of cyber experts to create the unit ready for the frontline should Britain ever be required to play an active role in a future combat zone. The UK is also planning to build new drone manufacturing facilities in the wake of revelations by Western officials earlier this year that showed that 80 per cent of battlefield casualties in Ukraine were due to drones, frequently deployed at short range.
