Using AI to defeat AI
Summary: Cisco Talos' Threat Source newsletter describes using AI-generated fictitious employees, complete with social media profiles and AI-generated CVs, to lure malicious profiling agents and turn their social engineering attempts into threat intelligence. The same edition reports a Talos researcher found six vulnerabilities in the Socomec DIRIS M-70 industrial gateway by emulating only the Modbus protocol handling thread, which the manufacturer has patched.
Why it matters: Vulnerabilities in industrial gateways like the M-70 can disrupt critical infrastructure, data centers, and health care, letting attackers stop operations or manipulate processes, and Talos notes CISA is operating at roughly 38% capacity (888 of 2,341 staff) during the DHS shutdown, though KEV remains.
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- Phishing & Social Engineering
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