AI-generated phishing attacks are becoming more convincing

It’s time for you and your colleagues to become more skeptical about what you read. That’s a takeaway from a series of experiments undertaken using GPT-3 AI text-generating interfaces to create malicious messages designed to spear-phish, scam, harrass, and spread fake news. Experts at WithSecure have described their investigations into just how easy it is to automate the creation of credible yet malicious content at incredible speed. Amongst the use cases explored by the research were the use of GPT-3 models to create: Phishing content – emails or messages designed to trick a user into opening…