Takeaways From a Threat Intelligence Specialist on Artificial Intelligence Being a 'Double-Edged Sword'

Jun 14, 2023 2:23:46 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

While artificial intelligence (AI) has been the hot topic of this year, a theme that I continue to see is that AI is being used for good and evil.

Forrester: AI, Cloud Computing, and Geopolitics are Emerging Cyberthreats in 2023

Jun 12, 2023 9:18:07 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Wouldn’t it be great if your cybersecurity strategy only had to focus on just a few threats? Sigh… if only life were that easy. But new predictions for this year’s most prevalent cyber ...

AI Voice-Based Scams Rise as One-Third of Victims Can’t Tell if the Voice is Real or Not

May 31, 2023 8:11:24 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As audio deepfake technology continues to go mainstream as part of the evolution in AI-based tools, new data shows there are plenty of victims and they aren’t prepared for such an attack.

[EPIC AI FAIL] Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT

May 30, 2023 2:01:50 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Found this highly amusing article: Legal Twitter is having tremendous fun right now reviewing the latest documents from the case Mata v. Avianca, Inc. (1:22-cv-01461). Here’s a neat ...

AI-generated Disinformation Dipped The Markets Yesterday

May 23, 2023 6:52:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Insider reported that an apparently AI-generated photo faking an explosion near the Pentagon in D.C. went viral. The Arlington Police Department confirmed that the image and ...

[Feet on the Ground] Stepping Carefully When Making an AI Your BFF

May 2, 2023 1:40:51 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Bloomberg's Brad Stone wrote an op-ed covering this topic. In the past month, a chatbot called "My AI" or "Sage" has appeared as a new friend for several hundred million Snapchat users. ...

Heart of the Matter: How LLMs Can Show Political Bias in Their Outputs

Apr 28, 2023 6:59:09 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Wired just published an interesting story about political bias that can show up in LLM's due to their training. It is becoming clear that training an LLM to exhibit a certain bias is ...

Does ChatGPT Have Cybersecurity Tells?

Apr 27, 2023 8:46:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Poker players and other human lie detectors look for “tells,” that is, a sign by which someone might unwittingly or involuntarily reveal what they know, or what they intend to do. A ...

OpenAI Transparency Report Highlights How GPT-4 Can be Used to Aid Both Sides of the Cybersecurity Battle

Apr 20, 2023 8:22:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The nature of an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) engine such as ChatGPT provides its users with an ability to use and misuse, potentially empowering both security teams and threat ...

Guarding Against AI-Enabled Social Engineering: Lessons from a Data Scientist's Experiment

Apr 19, 2023 1:26:59 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Verge came out with an article that got my attention. As artificial intelligence continues to advance at an unprecedented pace, the potential for its misuse in the realm of ...

[Head Start] Effective Methods How To Teach Social Engineering To An AI

Apr 14, 2023 3:57:40 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Remember The Sims? Well Stanford created a small virtual world with 25 ChatGPT-powered "people". The simulation ran for 2 days and showed that AI-powered bots can interact in a very ...

Large Language Models Will Change How ChatGPT and Other AI Tools Revolutionize Email Scams

Apr 13, 2023 9:14:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) is the fine tuning AI engines like ChatGPT need to focus the scam email output to only effective content that results in a wave of new email scams.

Recent Artificial Intelligence Hype is Used for Phishbait

Apr 12, 2023 8:51:10 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Curiosity leads people to suspend their better judgment as a new campaign of credential theft exploits a person’s excitement about the newest AI systems not yet available to the general ...

Win The AI Wars To Enhance Security And Decrease Cyber Risk

Apr 12, 2023 8:20:54 AM By Roger Grimes

With all the overwrought hype with ChatGPT and AI…much of it earned…you could be forgiven for thinking that only the bad actors are going to be using these advanced technologies and the ...

Italy Bans ChatGPT: A Portent of the Future, Balancing the Pros and Cons

Apr 4, 2023 9:49:59 AM By Javvad Malik

In a groundbreaking move, Italy has imposed a ban on the widely popular AI tool ChatGPT. This decision comes in the wake of concerns over possible misinformation, biases and the ethical ...

Social Engineering Attacks Utilizing Generative AI Increase by 135%

Apr 4, 2023 8:08:53 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New insights from cybersecurity artificial intelligence (AI) company Darktrace shows a 135% increase in novel social engineering attacks from Generative AI.

Fake ChatGPT Scam Turns into a Fraudulent Money-Making Scheme

Apr 3, 2023 8:16:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Using the lure of ChatGPT’s AI as a means to find new ways to make money, scammers trick victims using a phishing-turned-vishing attack that eventually takes victim’s money.

Artificial Intelligence Makes Phishing Text More Plausible

Mar 30, 2023 8:58:09 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybersecurity experts continue to warn that advanced chatbots like ChatGPT are making it easier for cybercriminals to craft phishing emails with pristine spelling and grammar, The ...

Identifying AI-Enabled Phishing

Mar 22, 2023 9:52:28 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Users need to adapt to an evolving threat landscape in which attackers can use AI tools like ChatGPT to craft extremely convincing phishing emails, according to Matthew Tyson at CSO.

Will AI and Deepfakes Weaken Biometric MFA

Feb 17, 2023 9:31:39 AM By Roger Grimes

You should use phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) when you can to protect valuable data and systems. But most biometrics and MFA are not as strong as touted and much of ...

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