Wolfgang Ettlinger & Alexander Hurbean

Skynet wants your Passwords! The Role of AI in Automating Social Engineering

What if a hacker could perfectly clone your CEO's voice to steal company funds? AI makes this a reality, and your password can't stop it.

Skynet wants your Passwords! The Role of AI in Automating Social Engineering
#1about 2 minutes

Understanding the dual role of AI in cybersecurity

Artificial intelligence can be used for both defensive security solutions and for malicious attacks like developing malware.

#2about 3 minutes

The threat of AI-generated deepfakes and voice cloning

Increasingly realistic AI-generated content, such as deepfakes and cloned voices, is being used for CEO fraud and fake kidnapping scams.

#3about 4 minutes

Automating social engineering with autonomous AI agents

Autonomous agents like AutoGPT can be programmed with a single goal to execute complex, multi-step social engineering attacks at scale.

#4about 5 minutes

A framework for automated phishing using LLMs

By jailbreaking models like ChatGPT, attackers can automate the creation of convincing phishing emails by feeding the model target information.

#5about 11 minutes

Building a proof-of-concept AI phishing email generator

A demonstration shows how a tool uses an LLM and service enumeration via DNS records to generate highly targeted phishing emails.

#6about 7 minutes

How to defend against AI-powered attacks

Defenses include user awareness, verification processes like S/MIME and PGP, adopting passkeys, and attempting prompt injection attacks on suspected bots.

Related jobs
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.

Matching moments

Demonstrating deepfake attacks and social engineering
13:23 MIN

Demonstrating deepfake attacks and social engineering

The AI Elections: How Technology Could Shape Public Sentiment

How AI accelerates and sophisticates cyber attacks
00:05 MIN

How AI accelerates and sophisticates cyber attacks

Tackling the Risks of AI - With AI

The perfection of social engineering with generative AI
03:15 MIN

The perfection of social engineering with generative AI

WWC24 - Chris Wysopal, Helmut Reisinger and Johannes Steger - Fighting Digital Threats in the Age of AI

Protecting your online identity from AI-powered scams
05:56 MIN

Protecting your online identity from AI-powered scams

WeAreDevelopers LIVE - Accessibility isn't magic, Longevity, Devrel in times of AI and more

The evolving cybersecurity landscape with AI
12:04 MIN

The evolving cybersecurity landscape with AI

Fireside Chat with Cloudflare's Chief Strategy Officer, Stephanie Cohen (with Mike Butcher MBE)

How attackers use AI to refactor exploits
22:33 MIN

How attackers use AI to refactor exploits

The AI Security Survival Guide: Practical Advice for Stressed-Out Developers

Manipulating AI with prompt injection and hidden commands
33:41 MIN

Manipulating AI with prompt injection and hidden commands

WeAreDevelopers LIVE - Is Software Ever Truly Accessible?

Fundamental AI vulnerabilities and malicious misuse
04:21 MIN

Fundamental AI vulnerabilities and malicious misuse

A hundred ways to wreck your AI - the (in)security of machine learning systems

Featured Partners

Related Videos

See all videos
Deep Fakes: The Lies We Can’t See24:49

Deep Fakes: The Lies We Can’t See

George Proorocu

Hacking AI - how attackers impose their will on AI27:02

Hacking AI - how attackers impose their will on AI

Mirko Ross

WWC24 - Chris Wysopal, Helmut Reisinger and Johannes Steger - Fighting Digital Threats in the Age of AI24:14

WWC24 - Chris Wysopal, Helmut Reisinger and Johannes Steger - Fighting Digital Threats in the Age of AI

Chris Wysopal, Helmut Reisinger & Johannes Steger

The AI Security Survival Guide: Practical Advice for Stressed-Out Developers30:36

The AI Security Survival Guide: Practical Advice for Stressed-Out Developers

Mackenzie Jackson

Tackling the Risks of AI - With AI29:28

Tackling the Risks of AI - With AI

Kai Grunwitz, Klaus Bürg & Tomislav Tipurić

The AI Elections: How Technology Could Shape Public Sentiment30:02

The AI Elections: How Technology Could Shape Public Sentiment

Martin Förtsch & Thomas Endres

A hundred ways to wreck your AI - the (in)security of machine learning systems24:23

A hundred ways to wreck your AI - the (in)security of machine learning systems

Balázs Kiss

Manipulating The Machine: Prompt Injections And Counter Measures27:10

Manipulating The Machine: Prompt Injections And Counter Measures

Georg Dresler

Related Articles

View all articles
DC
Daniel Cranney
Dev Digest 198: 30 years of JS, In-Browser AI, How Attackers Abuse GenAI
Inside last week’s Dev Digest 198 . 🎂 30 years of JavaScript ⏰ How long is a JavaScript second 💻 Clean code in Angular 🤦‍♂️ AI makes different mistakes than humans 👨‍💻 In-browser and offline AI 🟠 Undocumented Hacker News features 🐋 DeepSeek censored...
Dev Digest 198: 30 years of JS, In-Browser AI, How Attackers Abuse GenAI
DC
Daniel Cranney
Dev Digest 196: AI Killed DevOps, LLM Political Bias & AI Security
Inside last week’s Dev Digest 196 . ⚖️ Political bias in LLMs 🫣 AI written code causes 1 in 5 security breaches 🖼️ Is there a limit to alternative text on images? 📝 CodeWiki - understand code better 🟨 Long tasks in JavaScript 👻 Scare yourself into n...
Dev Digest 196: AI Killed DevOps, LLM Political Bias & AI Security
CH
Chris Heilmann
Exploring AI: Opportunities and Risks for Developers
In today's rapidly evolving tech landscape, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in development presents both exciting opportunities and notable risks. This dynamic was the focus of a recent panel discussion featuring industry experts Kent...
Exploring AI: Opportunities and Risks for Developers

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.

AI Low code architect

AI Low code architect

Deep Tech Recruitment Agency · Deeprec
Zürich, Switzerland

CHF104-130K
Senior
Azure
low-code