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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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Awareness / Phishing / FraudEducation and trainingGovernance, Riskmanagement and ComplianceAI & Quantum Security

When & Where

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Wed, 10/28/2026 04:00 PM - 04:10 PM

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Forum E, Booth 9-105

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Details

  • Format:

    Management lecture

  • Language:

    German

Session description

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 ...

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