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AI-based social engineering attacks

AI-based social engineering attacks

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AI-based social engineering attacks

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(ambient music) - [Instructor] Another type of social engineering attack we're seeing a lot of these days is doing social engineering with generative AI or artificial intelligence. And generative AI, it's going to be able to take some sort of input, like a prompt, and from that it can create text or audio or video, and the output can be difficult to distinguish between what GenAI created and what a human would create. For example, let's say that we have a malicious user that's wanting to use social engineering to trick somebody within a company into wiring them money. And maybe they get on social media to learn the organizational structure of this company. Maybe they've seen a presentation by the CEO and they're able to use that presentation to train AI to use the CEO's voice. Let's say, for example, that the user on the right works for "company" and the CEO is Ms. Prescott and the attacker knows that, and the attacker has taken to Ms. Prescott's public presentations and trained AI to…

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