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World Congress 2023 • Oct 6, 2023

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

Wolfgang Ettlinger , Alexander Hurbean

Could your team spot a phishing lure dynamically generated by an autonomous LLM? Learn why passkeys are your only defense when AI makes malicious content indistinguishable from reality.

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#1 about 1 min

Future realities of AI in social engineering

How artificial intelligence could automate phishing and scale social engineering attacks in the near future.

#2 about 2 min

Dual usage of machine learning in cybersecurity

How AI tools can be leveraged for both detecting threats and developing automated malicious campaigns.

#3 about 2 min

Eroding trust through artificial media generation

How highly realistic, artificially generated images and audio complicate the verification of digital identities.

#4 about 2 min

Real-world voice cloning and targeted fraud cases

How attackers use cloned voices for CEO fraud and highly targeted family emergency scams.

#5 about 4 min

Scaling malicious tasks with autonomous AI agents

How agents like AutoGPT can be repurposed to perpetually scale scams, phishing, and fake chats.

#6 about 3 min

Designing an automated phishing attack pipeline

The theoretical steps for building a system that gathers target intelligence to perpetually distribute personalized phishing.

#7 about 3 min

Bypassing safety filters with conversational jailbreaks

Exploiting prompt injection and community-found jailbreaks to override restrictions on commercial AI platforms.

#8 about 4 min

Architecture for automated targeted phishing campaigns

Designing a system that uses large language models alongside service enumerators to craft convincing email payloads.

#9 about 5 min

Configuring local models and service enumerators

Utilizing an open-source text generation web UI to orchestrate prompts and identify target infrastructure.

#10 about 4 min

Demonstrating the automated targeted phishing software

Observing a proof of concept automatically generate tailored lures based on a victim's specific domain records and software usage.

#11 about 7 min

Defensive strategies against AI-driven social engineering

Enhancing security postures through passwordless authentication, verified digital signatures, and prompt injection counter-attacks.

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