
The Dark Side of AI: Latest Social Engineering Trends
From Deepfake video to Voice-Phishing to WhatsApp: Insights about the latest social engineering attacks used by cybercriminals today.
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Management lecture
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German
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Speaker: Julius Muth From deepfake video and voice phishing to WhatsApp: a look behind the newest tactics used by cybercriminals.
Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed social engineering and cyberattacks. What once required painstaking manual research now takes only a few prompts: attackers tap into vast amounts of freely available OSINT data - LinkedIn profiles, press releases, podcasts, conference appearances - and use it to craft convincing, highly personalized attacks. The result: social engineering that is faster, more believable and dangerous, targeting virtually everyone in the organization, not just executives.
This shift poses a fundamental problem for traditional awareness measures. A few e-learnings a year, occasional phishing simulations, and tracking ...

