Forget everything you thought you knew about the security on the network. No more obvious signs, mocking pretense, ridiculous promises. The next email, which will seem sent to your friend, family member or colleague, may be so skillful that it will be almost impossible to recognize the fraud.
Artificial intelligence radically changes the landscape of cybersecurity. McAfee warns that cybercriminals were able to easily create personalized and convincing messages that look as sent from reliable sources. Popular postal services, including Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail, have not yet have effective protection against this new threat.
According to the ES , there is an increase in the number of hyperpersonalized phishing attacks created with the help of AI bots. Large companies, such as eBay, already report an increase in the number of fraudulent letters containing personal data of users collected by analyzing their online profiles using artificial intelligence.
< Check Point > predicts that by 2025, cybercriminals will use artificial intelligence to create narrowly-focused phishing campaigns and adapt the malicious software in real-time to circumvent traditional protection mechanisms. Although the security services also introduce AI tools, attackers continue to improve their methods of attacks.
AIBTs are able to analyze huge arrays of data on the style of communication of a company or a particular person, reproducing their characteristic features to create convincing deception. They also collect information about the presence of a potential victim on the network and its activity on social networks in order to determine the most effective topics for phishing attacks.
Corporate attacks aimed at obtaining confidential information or access to internal systems of the enterprise are of particular danger. Fraudsters can use complex schemes for manipulating the company management and obtaining approval for financial transactions. Check Point claims that modern AI technologies allow you to create perfect phishing letters.
According to the cybersecurity researcher Ebay Nadezhda Demidova