The rise of AI-powered criminals: Identifying threats and opportunities
Summary: Cisco Talos describes how AI is expected to streamline criminal operations, making them more efficient, sophisticated and scalable while helping attackers evade detection and attribution. The post cites a 2020 AI voice-cloning attack that impersonated a CEO and stole more than $240,000 from a UK-based energy company, and an incident in India where criminals used a machine learning model to mimic a victim's email contacts' writing style for personalized phishing.
What's compelling: A cloned voice and a learned writing style were enough to move $240,000 out of a UK energy company, and the same techniques now scale across criminal organizations with fewer people and lower operating costs.
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