{"id":9910,"date":"2026-01-16T02:03:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/wef-ai-overtakes-ransomware-as-fastest-growing-cyber-risk\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T02:03:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:03:42","slug":"wef-ai-overtakes-ransomware-as-fastest-growing-cyber-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/wef-ai-overtakes-ransomware-as-fastest-growing-cyber-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"WEF: AI overtakes ransomware as fastest-growing cyber risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    WEF: AI overtakes ransomware as fastest-growing cyber risk<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>We can no longer say that artificial intelligence is a &#8220;future risk&#8221;, lurking somewhere on a speculative threat horizon. The truth is that it is a fast-growing cybersecurity risk that organizations are facing today.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not just my opinion, that&#8217;s also the message that comes loud and clear from the World Economic Forum&#8217;s newly-published &#8220;Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortra.com\/blog\/wef-ai-overtakes-ransomware-fastest-growing-cyber-risk\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEF: AI overtakes ransomware as fastest-growing cyber risk We can no longer say that artificial intelligence is a &#8220;future risk&#8221;, lurking somewhere on a speculative threat horizon. The truth is that it is a fast-growing cybersecurity risk that organizations are facing today. That&#8217;s not just my opinion, that&#8217;s also the message that comes loud and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,266,54,155,486],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-9910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-artificial-intelligence","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-security-threats","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}