AI phishing scams turn your social posts against you
Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson walks you through five practical ways to protect your phone and personal information, avoid common travel scams, find better deals, save money on bookings and use technology to make your travels easier and less stressful.
Key points
- The research team, which included graduate student Elham Pourabbas Vafa and researcher Sayak Saha Roy, examined how AI could analyze public social media activity and generate personalized phishing emails.
- A scammer could use AI to analyze those posts and generate an email that appears to come from your hotel.
- AI-POWERED CYBERATTACKS FUEL 'BLACK OCTOBER' FEARS You've probably seen your share of phishing emails.
Their study shows how widely available AI tools can gather personal details from public social media accounts and turn them into highly convincing phishing emails.
But what if that email came from a scammer who used artificial intelligence to study your social media posts?
Additional details
- Your public posts can provide much of the information needed to create a believable message.
- The message might thank you for staying and offer a discount on your next visit.
- The researchers evaluated more than 18,000 AI-generated emails and compared them with thousands of real-world phishing messages.
- If you had recently complained about a delayed flight, an email offering compensation might arrive at just the right moment.
- Our free CyberGuy LIVE class, 5 Ways to Travel Smarter and Save Money, has ended, but you can still watch the full replay.
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