AI Threats Increase: Positive Technologies Gives Public Lecture at UGM

The development of artificial intelligence Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creating a surge of new threats in the world of digital security. In a public lecture delivered by Alexey Lukatsky, Managing Director & Cybersecurity Business Consultant at Positive Technologies, it was explained how AI is now being used by cybercriminals to carry out much more sophisticated and automated attacks.

Alexey Lukatsky is recognized as one of the most prominent information security experts in Russia and is widely known as cybersecurity evangelist not only in Russia but also at the global level. He has been in the information security industry for more than 30 years.

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Before joining Positive Technologies, Alexey worked in Cisco’s Russia office with responsibility for developing information security business in Russia, CIS and Europe.

In 2024, Alexey was awarded the Virtuti Interneti medal, the Russian Internet Governance Forum’s highest honor for individuals who have made major contributions to the internet ecosystem and cybersecurity.

He is also active in teaching at various educational institutions and international organizations, and is the author of more than 600 articles, five books, and more than thirty learning curricula in the field of cyber security. In addition, Alexey is involved in drafting and reviewing various regulations and legal frameworks related to information security and personal data protection.

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In his presentation, Alexey explained that generative AI capabilities have developed drastically, not only helping human work, but can now also be used to:

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1. Mimics human voices and faces with a high degree of similarity, paving the way for deepfake-based fraud.
2. Produces phishing messages that are very natural, making them difficult to distinguish from genuine communications.
3. Automate hundreds of attack scenarios at once, making manual defense efforts increasingly irrelevant.
4. Bypasses traditional security systems like OTP, face verification, voice check, and even some biometric systems.
5. Targeting the government, finance, technology, education, and health sectors, showing a significant increase in attack attempts throughout 2025.

Alexey emphasized that this era demands a new approach using AI to fight AI, building security systems that are able to learn adaptively, and increasing human resource capacity to be ready to face the latest generation of attacks.

Responding to the complexity of the latest cyber threats, Positive Technologies made another official visit to Gadjah Mada University (UGM) to discuss the follow-up to the MoU and strengthen strategic cooperation in international cyber security.

Previously, similar meetings were held on June 11 2025 when the first MoU was signed, and October 13 2025 to discuss the initial steps for implementing this cooperation.

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