Security News > 2024 > August > AI-fueled phishing scams raise alarm ahead of U.S. presidential election

Highlighting growth of phishing and digital scams targeting United States citizens, Bolster released a research that identified 24 separate nation-state threat actor groups attempting to exploit rising political tensions across the US to interfere with the 2024 presidential election.

"We know the frequency of phishing attacks is increasing, as hackers utilize AI to execute more scams than ever before. In fact, phishing scams are being hosted in the US at a rate of nearly double, compared to 2023. The trend is only accelerating. In May alone, we logged a daily average of more than 45K malicious phishing sites," said Abhilash Garimella, VP of Research at Bolster.

"More troubling, our researchers identified packages of voter data stolen over the past decade, for sale on the dark web and used by threat actors to create fake identification cards, potentially leading to identity theft or voter fraud."

Cyber threats and the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

These templates enable individuals to build counterfeit IDs including personal information obtained through phishing or data breaches.

Criminals then exploit the credibility associated with a US government email account to deceive users into believing requests are legitimate, and resulting in disclosure of confidential data, for example, using counterfeit Emergency Data Requests.

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