What’s powering the ‘Steroid Era’ of cybercrime? with CrowdStrike's Adam Meyers and Elia Zaitsev

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Safe Mode host Greg Otto sits down with Adam Myers, Head of Counter Adversary Operations at CrowdStrike, and Elia Zaitsev, CTO of CrowdStrike, to discuss why 2025 has been dubbed the “steroid era” for cybercrime due to AI’s transformative impact on both attackers and defenders. The conversation reveals alarming statistics—a 442% increase in voice-based phishing attacks, average adversary breakout times dropping to just 48 minutes, and 81% of intrusions now operating without any malware at all—