From the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project:
Organized Crime Has a New Tool in Its Belts - Artificial Intelligence
....One such example is procedurally generated fishing emails designed to bypass spam filters.
Despite the proliferation of new and powerful technologies, a cybercriminal's greatest asset is still his mark’s propensity for human error and the most common types of cyber scams are still based around so-called social engineering, i.e taking advantage of empathy, trust or naivete.
While in the past social engineering scams had to be somewhat tailored to specific targets or audiences, through artificial intelligence they can be deployed en masse and use machine learning to tailor themselves to new audiences.
“Unfortunately, criminals already have enough experience and sample texts to build their operations on,” the report said. An innovative scammer can introduce AI systems to automate and speed up the detection rate at which the victims fall in or out of the scam. This allows them to focus only on those potential victims who are easy to deceive. Whatever false pretense a scammer chooses to persuade the target to participate in, an ML algorithm would be able to anticipate a target’s most common replies to the chosen pretense, the report explained....
....MUCH MORE, deepfakes, etc
And Europol:
