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Social engineering

Social engineering

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Social engineering

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Generative AI dramatically increases both the scale and credibility of social engineering campaigns. Underground communities now distribute attack-oriented language models that produce well-written phishing emails, malware scripts, and persuasive chat responses with little user input. Criminals can simply supply a company name, recent press release or leaked address book, and the model returns tailored messages that mirror internal jargon and formatting standards. The result is a flood of spear-phishing lures that sail past many traditional spam filters. Attackers are also cloning voices to fuel sophisticated vishing and ransom hoaxes. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission recently warned that scammers were using AI-cloned voices to imitate distressed relatives, instructing the targets to wire urgently needed money. A widely reported case involved an Arizona mother who answered an unknown number and heard what sounded like her teenage daughter crying while kidnappers demanded payment…

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