Tags: scams

Generative AI is reshaping cybercrime by drastically cutting the time and expertise needed to launch scams. Tasks that once required many hours can now be completed in minutes, enabling criminals to produce convincing phishing emails, deepfake voices, fake documents, and entire scam campaigns at scale. The rapid automation has turned fraud into an industrialized operation, allowing thousands of attacks to be deployed simultaneously and increasing global losses dramatically. Defenders are struggling to keep pace with the speed and sophistication of AI‑driven fraud. Weiterlesen

OpenAI reported that it has banned a China‑originated account that used ChatGPT to design a social‑media listening “probe” capable of crawling major platforms for politically, ethnically or religiously defined content. The company also blocked an account developing a “High‑Risk Uyghur‑Related Inflow Warning Model” for tracking individuals. These actions are part of a broader effort that uncovered Russian, Korean and Chinese developers refining malware, and networks in Cambodia, Myanmar and Nigeria creating scams with the AI. OpenAI estimates its model detects scams three times more often than it creates them, and it has disrupted influence campaigns in Iran, Russia and China. Weiterlesen

Meta is rolling out new facial recognition‑powered safety features on Facebook in the United Kingdom, European Union and South Korea to curb accounts that impersonate public figures. The technology, first used in the United States last year to flag fraudulent celebrity ads and aid account recovery, now lets the company compare profile pictures of suspicious accounts with verified public‑figure images. Public figures can opt in to the program, and the rollout will extend to Instagram in coming months. Meta says the move has already helped reduce user reports of "celebrity bait" ads globally. Weiterlesen