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Raising the alarm: BYU researchers find AI is an effective tool in phishing scams
A new Brigham Young University study is raising the alarm about how new technology is being used to deceive people in phishing scams. Researchers set out to see if these scams, targeting individuals with their personal information as a means to extract sensitive information from them, could be performed with artificial intelligence as effectively as with human-created messages. These scams can come from cellphone texts, email or telephone calls and pertain to personal information such as a person’s hobbies or who their coworkers are. The study, led by BYU cybersecurity ...
