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Artificial Intelligence: The Evolution of Social Engineering

Security Through Education

From traditional methods to the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), malicious actors continually adapt and leverage emerging tools to exploit vulnerabilities. Historical Shifts: Social engineering has a rich history that reflects the evolution of technology from the pre-internet era to the rise of social media.

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Cybercriminals Implemented Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Invoice Fraud

Security Affairs

Crooks created a new tool that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) for creating fraudulent invoices used for wire fraud and BEC. Resecurity has uncovered a cybercriminal faction known as “ GXC Team “, who specializes in crafting tools for online banking theft, ecommerce deception, and internet scams.

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We are scared of Artificial Intelligence says OpenAI CEO

CyberSecurity Insiders

Forget all the innovations developed to date, like radio, TV, smartphone, computer, and internet; as we can gain a slew of benefits from the latest AI model GPT-4, as it can become the fastest growing consumer application in history, added Sam Altman.

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Google offers Artificial Intelligence-based Interview Warmup for new job seekers

CyberSecurity Insiders

Google, the internet juggernaut, is offering an Artificial Intelligence enabled help desk that will help job seeks train themselves against the latest skills in profession. The post Google offers Artificial Intelligence-based Interview Warmup for new job seekers appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Attack/Defense Balance

Schneier on Security

Artificial intelligence technologies have the potential to upend the longstanding advantage that attack has over defense on the Internet. This has to do with the relative strengths and weaknesses of people and computers, how those all interplay in Internet security, and where AI technologies might change things.

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Safer Internet Day, or why Brad Pitt needed an internet bodyguard

Malwarebytes

February 6, 2024 is Safer Internet Day. When I was asked to write about the topic, I misunderstood the question and heard: “can you cover save the internet” and we all agreed that it might be too late for that. The internet has been around for quite some time now, and most of us wouldn’t know what to do without it.

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The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. AI Will Enable Mass Spying.

Schneier on Security

Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming. Surveillance has become the business model of the internet, and there’s no reasonable way for us to opt out of it. What was manual and individual has become bulk and mass. Spying is another matter.