- What: AI is being used to automate and reduce the cost of social engineering and phishing attacks.
- Impact: Increased efficiency and lower skill requirements for attackers, leading to more frequent and sophisticated scams.
In this Help Net Security video, Miguel Fornés, Governance and Compliance Manager at Surfshark, discusses how AI is changing social engineering attacks. He describes how tasks that once took weeks, such as research and targeting, are now automated and cheap. This shift has lowered the skills and cost needed to run scams and phishing campaigns. Attackers use AI agents to gather open source data and hold live conversations with victims without human help. Fornés also … More → The post AI-driven scams are eroding trust in calls, messages, and meetings appeared first on Help Net Security .