AI makes phishing 4.5x more effective, Microsoft says

People receiving an AI phishing email are 4.5 times more likely to click on the malicious link or file, according to Microsoft. In its annual Digital Defense Report, Redmond says these AI-automated emails achieved 54 percent click-through rates last year compared to 12 percent for non-AI phishes. Not only does AI increase …

[cyberdemon]

Shouting into the void for several years

The only killer-app for AI is: FRAUD

• Passing off a statistical regression of past culture as new creative works
• Fooling a pointy-haired boss into believing that a SaaS AI subscription is better than actual staff
• Conning human (and perhaps artificial) staff into handing over the keys to the kingdom
• Creating disinformation (including videos) that is highly effective at turning useful idiots towards your new populist political party
• Fabricating video evidence that is practically indistinguishable from real CCTV to defame your enemies and provide plausible deniability for your own misdeeds

OK there are two more "killer apps".. with appropriate icons. I needn't bother enumerating them

All we need is one more, and we'll have the Horsemen

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Shouting into the void for several years

What he said…

[Sorry that handle is already taken.]

Re: Shouting into the void for several years

It's no doubt part of the reason why so many kleptocurrency grifters are now AI grifters.

[Randy Hudson]

In the future, the AÍ will increasingly be used to combat the use of AI.

[Khaptain]

Yes, and AI will win. It's the ineviability of the ineviable.

The Black Mirror wasn't fiction after all.

[DS999]

OpenAI will

Sell you AI powered scam detection software, to counteract the AI powered scams that crooks will use OpenAI's software to develop!

[Anonymous Coward]

Every email, every phone call

Every online offer.

Check and check again.

Trust nobody, especially when Granny wants to connect to your computer to discuss crypto…

[frankvw]

More effective and profitable phishing thanks to AI

Amazing! Copilot finally has a purpose!

[[e-mail]]

Finally a need for AI

Microsoft is still desperate to find a business that can be improved with AI. Phishing... Well, that's something.