AI-Driven Phishing on the Rise: NSA Official Stresses Need for Cyber Awareness

Even though the National Security Agency has been investigating cyberattacks and propaganda campaigns, a National Security Agency official said Tuesday that hackers are turning to generative artificial intelligence chatbots, such as ChatGPT, to make their operations appear more convincing to native English speakers to make their operations appear more credible to native English speakers. 

When Rob Joyce, NSA Cybersecurity Director, spoke at Fordham University in New York to discuss cyber security at the International Conference on Cyber Security, NSA Cybersecurity Director said the spy agency has observed hackers and cybercriminals using chatbots to appear more natural to foreign intelligence agencies, and both of them used such bots to make them appear more likely to be native English speakers. 

Cybercriminals of all skill levels are using artificial intelligence to enhance their abilities. However, AI is also helping to hunt them down, as security experts have warned. It was revealed at a conference at Fordham University that the director of cybersecurity at the National Security Agency, Rob Joyce, said that Chinese hackers are using artificial intelligence to get past firewalls when infiltrating networks and using it to their advantage. 

The report Joyce warns that hackers are using artificial intelligence to improve the quality of their English

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