Hutchens J. The Language of Deception. Weaponizing Next Generation AI 2024 torrent

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It is commonly understood that social engineering is one of the biggest challenges modern society faces. Highly orchestrated social engineering campaigns target corporate workers with credential harvesting attacks, wire fraud, and business opportunity scams. It even plagues our personal lives, from calls about your car’s extended warranty to emails from stranded wealthy Nigerian princes. While problematic, these campaigns are often limited in frequency and scale because they require human interaction to establish rapport with their victims. These campaigns are also limited in effectiveness, since many of the fraudsters are targeting victims in their non-native language – as these campaigns are often perpetrated by organized criminal enterprises exploiting low-income workers in under-developed countries. In the wake of the growing Artificial Intelligence (AI) explosion, these limiting factors are quickly dissolving and the threat landscape is rapidly changing. We are already beginning to see signs of cyber adversaries adopting the use of AI in their campaigns. Assuming this trend continues, social engineering campaigns are on track to become larger, more frequent, and far more effective as criminal enterprises begin to replace human fraudsters with objective-driven, and fully autonomous social engineering systems built on top of modern Large Language Models (LLMs). Building on over a decade of research in using conversational AI for social engineering, this book will address how recent advances in LLM and generative AI technology can empower threat actors to execute fully automated social engineering attacks at a near limitless scale. Through the increased scaling of LLMs, we have effectively equipped machines with “natural language” (i.e., with our language). The world is rapidly pivoting away from the use of obscure machine languages that required deliberate human effort to support system interactions. The new interface to interact with these systems (and them with us), is the same languages and the same methods of communication that we use to interact with one another. By speaking their language, humans have hacked machines for decades. But now, with the machines speaking our language, the era where machines will hack humans is upon us