What we’ve been reading:
- How AI is fuelling frighteningly effective scams
Reviews areas of malicious use of AI technology for voice and video scams, along with a brief mention of phishing. Looks at how standard AI tools can be “weaponized by criminals to create realistic yet bogus voices, websites, videos and other content to perpetrate fraud,” and why voice cloning is a particular problem for the financial services industry that has built transaction authorization around voice signatures for years.
AARP - Time to click for phishing links
KnowBe4 runs the numbers on when people click on links in phishing emails. Two findings stood out: first, links in phishing messages received Monday to Friday are routinely clicked by 20% or more of users, and second, more than half of users click to open phishing emails within 60 minutes of receiving the message. KnowBe4 Blog - The impact of generative AI on the efficacy of security awareness training
Explores the impact of generative AI on the performance of security awareness training, emphasizing the changing dynamics as cybercriminals leverage generative AI services to remove traditional signals of compromise (e.g., spelling mistakes, poor language use) and weaponize the services to deliver individually-targeted phishing messages based on a social media profile. SCMagazine
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