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Cyberattacks on video platforms surged 35% in 2025 due to AI development — expert

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What to know about Cyberattacks on video platforms surged 35% in 2025 due to AI development — expert

Alexey Zhukov of Gazprom-Media Holding reported a 35% increase in cyberattacks on media services and video platforms in 2025. He attributed this growth to the use of artificial intelligence by threat actors to scale phishing, create deepfakes, and identify software vulnerabilities.

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What happened

The number of cyberattacks on media services and video platforms increased by 35% year-on-year in 2025, and this figure may continue to rise through the end of the year, Alexey Zhukov, Director of Information Security for Digital Assets at Gazprom-Media…

Why it matters

The primary driver behind this accelerated growth is the active use of artificial intelligence (AI) by threat actors, he explained.

Common ground

"Cyberattacks on media services and video platforms increased by 35% in 2025 compared to the previous year, and their volume may continue to grow by the end of the year," Zhukov said.

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Alexey Zhukov of Gazprom-Media Holding reported a 35% increase in cyberattacks on media services and video platforms in 2025. He attributed this growth to the use of artificial intelligence by threat actors to scale phishing, create deepfakes, and identify software vulnerabilities.

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Claim 1: “Alexey Zhukov, Director of Information Security for Digital Assets at Gazprom-Media Holding, said during the "Cybersecurity and AI: Reality and Prospects" session at the CIPR-2026 conference”
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TASS reports Alexey Zhukov's role and his statements, and a separate web search result confirms the existence and dates of the CIPR conference in Nizhny Novgorod, corroborating the context of the event.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Yury Yakovlevich Chaika (Russian: Юрий Яковлевич Чайка; born 21 May 1951) is a Russian lawyer and statesman who currently serves as the Presidential Envoy to the North Caucasian Federal District since…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury_Chaika
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Claim 2: “The number of cyberattacks on media services and video platforms increased by 35% year-on-year in 2025”
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The specific statistic (35% increase in 2025) is reported only by TASS. Other web results discuss general trends or different timeframes (e.g., 2022), but do not corroborate this specific figure.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On Monday, 28 April 2025, at 12:33 CEST (11:33 WEST; 10:33 UTC), a major power blackout occurred across the Iberian Peninsula affecting mainland Portugal and peninsular Spain, where electric power was…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer d…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cyberattacks
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, sometimes referred to as UNC6040 and UNC6395, is a cybercrime supergroup also known and referred to as "Trinity of Chaos". The supergroup is an international extortion-focus…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattered_Lapsus$_Hunters
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Claim 3: “the ability of modern AI tools to discover zero-day vulnerabilities poses a particular danger”
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Multiple sources confirm AI's capability to find zero-day vulnerabilities, including a report on Google's TIG findings and technical articles on AI security reasoning.
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web search NEUTRAL — This marks a fundamental shift: AI is now capable of performing security reasoning—not just pattern scanning. This article explains how AI discovers zero-day vulnerabilities, with architecture and tec…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ai-discovering-real-zero-…
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web search NEUTRAL — "Tip of the iceberg" -> Google's TIG reports the first known example of hackers using AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day; TIG's chief analyst says "this is the tip of the iceberg" "A criminal hac…
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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web search NEUTRAL — What are Zero-Day Vulnerabilities? A zero-day vulnerability refers to a security flaw that has been discovered but not yet patched. The term “zero-day” signifies that the software or hardware vendor h…
https://bevijaygupta.medium.com/the-art-of-finding-zero-day-…
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Claim 4: “AI is currently being leveraged to scale up attacks, including generating highly convincing phishing messages, creating deepfake audio and video, and conducting automated software vulnerability scanning”
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Multiple independent sources (Communications of the ACM, TRM Labs, and a PDF on AI in Cyber Warfare) confirm that AI is being used for phishing, deepfakes, and scaling cyberattacks.
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web search NEUTRAL — Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. AI Rewrites the Rules Of Phishing, Cybercrime. How artificial intelligence can supercharge attempts to penetrate your security.
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/ai-rewrites-the-rules-of-phishi…
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web search NEUTRAL — Executive impersonation using deepfake audio or video. AI-generated phishing campaigns. Automated laundering and cross-chain routing. AI improves speed, realism, and targeting precision across these c…
https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/how-ai-is-changing-th…
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web search NEUTRAL — Explores AI's role in military cyber and information warfare, including autonomous weapons, decision-making, deepfakes, legal challenges, and international governance efforts. This presentation explor…
https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ai-and-emerging-technol…
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