Only 14 percent of all business email compromise attempts had AI-generated content in April.
Artificial intelligence tools were leveraged to generate 51 percent of scam emails in April, with AI-based spam emails ramping up since the introduction of ChatGPT.
According to Infosecurity Magazine, only 14 percent of all business email compromise attempts had AI-generated content in April, findings from a Barracuda study conducted alongside University of Chicago and Columbia University researchers revealed.
Attackers also noted to have exploited AI to craft more credible and formal messages aimed at circumventing email detection systems. While the increasing prevalence of AI models has allowed more AI-generated spam emails, the technology's limitations may have hindered similar growth in BEC attacks, according to Columbia University's Asaf Cidon.
"Given the recent rise of very effective and cheap voice cloning models, we think attackers will incorporate voice deepfakes into BEC attacks, so they can impersonate specific people such as the CEO, even better," Cidon added.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
