Automated AI phishing matches human expertise while being 92% faster and infinitely scalable.
AI learns your digital footprint and uses it to craft irresistible phishing bait.
LLMs can now conduct automated spear phishing attacks as effectively as human experts, achieving a 54% success rate in real-world tests.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00586
🎯 Original Problem:
→ Traditional phishing attacks are labor-intensive and lack personalization, while AI-powered attacks remain unexplored in real-world scenarios.
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🔧 Solution in this Paper:
→ The researchers built a custom AI tool that automates the entire phishing process, from gathering target information to sending personalized emails.
→ The tool uses GPT-4 and Claude for reconnaissance, creating detailed vulnerability profiles of targets by analyzing their digital footprint.
→ It then generates hyper-personalized phishing emails based on the gathered information, incorporating proven persuasion techniques.
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🔍 Key Insights:
→ AI-automated phishing is 92% faster than manual methods
→ AI tool gathered accurate reconnaissance data in 88% of cases
→ Simple prompt engineering can bypass AI safety guardrails
→ Claude 3.5 achieved 97.25% phishing detection rate with zero false positives
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📊 Results:
→ Control group (basic phishing): 12% success rate
→ Human expert emails: 54% success rate
→ Fully AI-automated emails: 54% success rate
→ AI with human oversight: 56% success rate
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