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.

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