The Death of the Search Engine, The Birth of the Poisoned Assistant
Evidence-based strategic foresight on emergent threat paradigms.
Within 12 months, traditional SEO will be secondary to 'LLM Optimization' (LLMO). Threat actors will focus entirely on influencing the 'Knowledge Graphs' of AI assistants. We expect to see the first 'AI-Native' ransomware that uses LLMs to conduct autonomous social engineering via voice and video synthesis, targeting the physical-cyber gap identified by SRG.
Primary Sourcing Telemetry: Synthesized from The CyberSec Times Foresight Desk under Transformative Fair Use for defensive security awareness.
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