“New Framework Aims to Describe & Address Complex Social Engineering Attacks” via Kelly Sheridan | Dark Reading
“Deepfake and related synthetic media technologies have helped attackers develop ever-more-realistic social engineering attacks in recent years, putting pressure on defenders to change the strategies they use to detect and address them.
The FBI warned synthetic media will play a greater role in cyberattacks in March, when officials predicted “malicious actors almost certainly will leverage synthetic content for cyber and foreign influence operations in the next 12-18 months.” Some criminals have already started: in 2019, attackers used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate the voice of a chief executive and in doing so, facilitate a transfer of $243,000 USD from the target organization.”
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