2025 MSP Guide to Cybercrime in the Age of AI

This guide discusses the evolving landscape of cybercrime influenced by artificial intelligence, specifically focusing on the year 2025. It outlines how AI-powered attacks have become more sophisticated, detailing the emergence of generative AI and its transition to agentic AI, which can operate autonomously without human intervention. The guide presents various techniques employed by cybercriminals, such as prompt chaining, adversarial prompting, and jailbreaking, which exploit generative AI tools to create malware and conduct social engineering attacks. It highlights the significant increase in malicious activities, including a reported 1,265% rise in phishing messages following the introduction of ChatGPT. The document emphasizes the need for organizations to enhance their cybersecurity measures, including endpoint security and continuous monitoring, to defend against these advanced threats. It also warns of the potential for agentic AI to automate and scale cyberattacks, making them more persistent and challenging to counter.