Security News > 2023 > April > LLMs and Phishing

Today's human-run scams aren't limited by the number of people who respond to the initial email contact.

A smart scammer doesn't want to waste their time with people who reply and then realize it's a scam when asked to wire money.

A single scammer, from their laptop anywhere in the world, can now run hundreds or thousands of scams in parallel, night and day, with marks all over the world, in every language under the sun.

LLMs will change the scam pipeline, making them more profitable than ever.

Combine the digital dossiers that data brokers have on all of us with LLMs, and you have a tool tailor-made for personalized scams.

The use of others as minions to accomplish scams is sadly nothing new or uncommon: For example, organized crime in Asia currently kidnaps or indentures thousands in scam sweatshops.

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