In this article, we will talk about the impact of AI on phishing and other cyber attacks. We will also try to give some useful data on how to protect yourself from advanced phishing attempts
Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a significant impact on the cybersecurity world, both from an attacker’s and a defensive perspective. One of the emerging challenges is that cybercriminals are using very sophisticated AI chatbots to make it more difficult to distinguish phishing emails from “real” ones.
In this article, we will talk about the impact of AI on phishing and other cyber attacks. We will also try to give some useful data on how to protect yourself from advanced phishing attempts, for example by using a VPN with additional features that greatly reduce the risk of clicking on risky links.
In recent years, AI chatbots have improved dramatically, to the point where they can credibly mimic human speech and writing. This evolution has prompted cybercriminals to use these tools to improve the quality of their emails for phishing campaigns, making it more difficult for users and security systems to detect such fraudulent machinations.
In the past, phishing emails were easier to recognize due to grammatical blunders and poor spelling. But now AI chatbots have corrected the shot, creating natural content that makes it more difficult to recognize fraudulent emails.
To protect yourself from these more elaborate attempts, it’s important to take some preventative steps. One of these is the use of a VPN (Virtual Private Network), a technology capable of encrypting the data transmitted during our internet activity. There are currently services on the market that offer additional features to detect and block potentially harmful links.
In addition to using a VPN, there are other strategies users can take to protect themselves from advanced phishing scams:
It is undeniable that AI offers many advantages in the field of cybersecurity, such as analyzing user behavior to identify suspicious activity or using machine learning algorithms to improve threat detection. However, this technology still shows some dark sides, as recently underlined by the intervention of the Italian Privacy Guarantor which caused the limitation of GPT Chat in our country (chosen by Open AI).
While, on the one hand, the countermeasures suggested above can be useful at the “micro” level or in the context of a company, a coordinated intervention at the “macro” level is needed, involving regulators and hi-tech companies, to develop strategies effective in countering the abuse of AI by cybercriminals.
Some important steps in this direction may include:
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