AI-driven scams growing in sophistication, experts warn
TrendMicro: 71 percent of people are worried about AI scams
(InvestigateTV) — Artificial intelligence (AI) has improved so much that many people now have a hard time telling the difference between it and reality, making AI a powerful tool for criminals.
Danny Jenkins is the CEO and founder of ThreatLocker. He recently shared a video of himself speaking Spanish. The problem? Jenkins doesn’t speak Spanish.
“Most people just didn’t know AI could do that,” Jenkins said. “And that means most victims don’t know that what they’re looking at might not be real.”
Jenkins said AI videos like this are getting harder to detect – and the threat goes beyond just fake footage.
“The win for the attackers is much bigger. It’s normally because they’re going after businesses, because if they get access to one computer in a business, they can get access to 100 computers, 1,000 computers,” he explained. “So, I would say be super careful about what you download, because even if you don’t give somebody something over the phone, if they manage to convince you to run malware on your computer, then they can pretty much get everything that you can access from your machine.”
Jenkins isn’t alone in his concern.
Jon Clay, vice president of threat intelligence at Trend Micro, said AI scams are evolving faster than most people realize.
Clay is worried that it is going to continue to get harder to detect fakes and shared advice to help people assess the material.
“You want to look at the intent of the message,” he emphasized. “Is it intended to get you to do something quickly? Is it intending to get you to put in your or personal information somewhere, or spend money, spend, you know, pay something. Sometimes they may say ‘Hey, pay us in a gift card or pay us in a crypto or something. Those are a little non-standard.”
For more information, Trend Micro has a portal on ‘How to Identify and Avoid Scams.’
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