This Is How Hackers Target Everyday People With AI Chatbots
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Summary
Hackers are utilising generative AI in addition to conventional social engineering techniques to exploit targets
They use AI to imitate voices and appearances, enhanced social engineering attacks, and automate tasks to make scams harder to spot and easier to execute on a grand scale
This includes AI-powered phishing and smishing attacks, which can clone real accounts to send scam messages to contacts
AI can also take over accounts and create fake profiles to chat up targets and manipulate them via chats, including pushing phishing links, spreading false information and using deepfake videos to make themselves appear more legitimate and persuasive
To combat this, it is important to not share personal information, check the legitimacy of messages and posts and think before clicking on anything that looks suspicious
