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Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail Warning—AI Attack Nightmare Is Coming True (www.forbes.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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“The rise of AI agents like Operator shows the dual nature of technology — tools built for productivity can be weaponized by determined attackers with minimal effort. This research highlights how AI systems can be manipulated through simple prompt engineering to bypass ethical guardrails and execute complex attack chains that gather intelligence, create malicious code, and deliver convincing social engineering lures.”

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I mean, I get the idea that it's easier to do this sort of thing at scale with this technology, but there are already entire sophisticated corporations overseas dedicated solely to phishing at scale already using ultra cheap labor so like ... Is anything really going to change other than those scam companies going out of business due to grassroots competition? I don't really see how this changes anything other than the labor budget of phishing companies.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

When something becomes substantially easier to do, the prevalence of it is going to increase substantially as well. So it's not that phishing is going to get any more complex or deceptive. It's that it's going to come from 10x+ more endpoints. And while you personally may feel immune, it's all a numbers game to the scammer. The more attacks they send out, the higher their success rate.

If you're already getting 10 scam calls and texts a day, imagine getting 100. If you're getting 100, imagine getting 1000.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I remember back when there was a time where when this occurred in the USA, it was the telephone company's responsibility to shut it down, for all the people getting all that spam from a particular source at once.

Then that was changed, sometime after Obama and before Biden.