AI-driven cybercrime: Can it exploits human error?

AI-driven cybercrime: Can it exploits human error?

According to Allan Juma, a cyber security engineer at ESET East Africa, artificial intelligence is changing cybersecurity, both positively and negatively. According to a statement by Juma, security teams are utilizing the same technology to implement enhanced defense mechanisms, while cybercriminals are utilizing AI advancements to orchestrate increasingly complex attacks. Although AI is not intrinsically good or harmful, it has the capacity to be both. When used by defenders, it can provide strong defense against cyberattacks that take advantage of widespread human weaknesses and identify the person using the keyboard, according to the expert.

Businesses in Africa that have made digitization a top priority over the last ten years now face new vulnerabilities that require attention on both a technological and human level.

One of the most serious AI-enhanced cyberthreats we are aware of is advanced social engineering. Cybercriminals can more easily create convincing phishing emails that perfectly mimic CEOs or coworkers thanks to generative AI and massive language models like ChatGPT. Because these models are also adept at translating, attackers can target smaller nations and new areas with specialized dialects, according to Juma.

Attackers can increase the pace and scope at which they take advantage of security flaws in a company by automating vulnerability scanning with AI.

This involves locating hacked internal accounts that they exploit to send deepfakes or phishing emails.

AI-generated audio or video that mimics real individuals, like as managers, CEOs, and financial officers, is known as impersonation. Employees find it more challenging to distinguish between authentic and fraudulent emails as technology advances.

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