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 ...

Hackers Work Around ChatGPT Malicious Content Restrictions to Create Phishing Email Content

Feb 9, 2023 8:51:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Active discussions in hacker forums on the dark web showcase how using a mixture of the Open AI API and automated bot from the Telegram messenger platform can create malicious emails.

How Artificial Intelligence Can Make or Break Cybersecurity

Feb 7, 2023 8:26:47 AM By James McQuiggan

With the introduction of OpenAI's Chat GPT, artificial intelligence is no longer considered part of science fiction. It has presented a new problem for cybersecurity professionals, as ...

[On-Demand] Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT and Cybersecurity: A Match Made in Heaven or a Hack Waiting to Happen?

Feb 1, 2023 9:24:06 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer science fiction.

The Next Evolution in Cyberattacks You Need to Worry About: AI

Jun 20, 2022 10:11:02 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New testimony to U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Cybersecurity by Microsoft’s Chief Scientific Officer sheds light on AI-powered cyberattacks.

Deep Fakes Getting Better Every Day With AI / Machine Learning

Jul 19, 2019 11:51:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A recent article in The Next Web showed how AI can magically remove a person or object from a video background as computer algorithms “clips” the person walking across a street out of the ...

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security

Mar 28, 2018 11:31:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Kevin Townsend wrote a great article about AI in SecurityWeek, looking at the current state of affairs and the expected near future, based on a recent important scientific paper titled: ...

CyberheistNews Vol 8 #5 Scam Of The Week: "Hey Did You See That Fake AI Porn Movie Of Yourself?"

Jan 29, 2018 9:46:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[PHISHING ALERT] "Hey Did You See That Fake AI Porn Movie Of Yourself?"

Jan 27, 2018 10:58:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Heads-up. I am sorry to have to bring up a very distasteful topic, but in the very near future your users will get phishing emails with something close to the ultimate click-bait, luring ...

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