Scammers Are Utilizing AI to Improve Their Attacks

AI is a powerful tool that many can benefit from. Unfortunately, that list includes bad actors and malicious users, who are abusing AI technologies to improve tactics like phishing and social engineering. To protect the data of your business, you’ll need to be on the lookout more than ever before.

As CNBC reports, one of the big benefits AI affords to hackers out of the gate is believability in their writing. Prior to the advancements in AI, hackers would wrote phishing emails that frequently stood out to the keen observer: Spelling error, grammar mistakes, incorrect names, and other issues would make a phishing email or text easy to spot.

However, with AI, a hacker can ask a program to write a phishing email for them in whatever language they like. AI models are trained on huge data sets of any given language, so their responses often sound natural, and not like a computer wrote them.

Luckily, just as bad actors are leveraging AI tools to their advantage, so too are anti-scammer tools using AI tech to fight back. Soon, the market will have software powered by AI designed to identify phishing and scam messages with great accuracy, even those assisted by AI.

Make sure you’re staying up-to-date with the latest developments in AI, especially from a security standpoint. If you manage a team, knowing the latest AI phishing tactics are what to look out for can help you protect your business’ data, and you can help impart that knowledge to your employees.

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