LinkedIn has always been a platform full of hackers and scams, but this new campaign stands out from the previous one. Indeed, according to research by SafeGuard Cyber this would be the very first phishing campaign to be carried out using artificial intelligence. The hackers likely used Dall-E or an equivalent to create the image, along with a chatbot to generate the accompanying text.
It was only a matter of time. In a recent report, cybersecurity company SafeGuard Cyber reveals that it has detected the first phishing campaign carried out almost entirely by artificial intelligence. As often, here the social network intended for professionals is used to obtain the personal data of their users, making it possible to follow up on other hacking attempts.
LinkedIn is already a favorite haunt for hackers. In recent years, there have been many phishing campaigns on the platform, which have taken different forms. Recently, cryptocurrency scams have been particularly numerous in users’ news feeds. Today, hackers use the latest technologies to achieve their goals.
That’s all, artificial intelligence is used to steal your personal information
We have already had the example of the deepfake that hackers use to create false professional profiles. Today a new step has been taken. SafeGuard Cyber researchers say they came across a strange-looking ada white paper of good marketing practices. To download it, you must provide your email address and phone number. It was the account behind this ad that caught the attention of the experts. The latter, dubbed “Sales Intelligence,” redirects curious users to the site of an Arizona jeweler, most likely there to fill out LinkedIn’s required fields.
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But the most curious is undoubtedly the image that accompanies this ad. This does indeed have a small watermark in the lower right corner, typical of images generated by Dall-E. Text doesn’t fare much better. According to our colleagues at TechRadar, who analyzed the latter via an AI detector, the text achieved a score of 79%. In other words, it is very likely thatat least some of it is artificially generated. “Encountering this fake LinkedIn ad was an important reminder of the new social engineering risks now emerging in conjunction with AI”writes SafeGuard Cyber.
Source : TechRadar
