Phishing is an attack that is usually aimed at manipulating users into giving away sensitive information. AI plays an active role in countering these scams.
How AI helps:
Email Filtering: A machine learning model can identify a phishing email by tracing suspicious patterns and links and even sender behavior.
Real-time alerts: Phishing warning from an AI-powered browser alerting a user browsing a known phishing site is based on the real-time threat database.
Example:
For example, Gmail from Google uses AI on their backend to block nearly 99.9% visiting phishing emails.
But now the attackers have come up with another method with the aid of AI, which personalizes phishing emails to an extent that they can be difficult to detect. For instance, they can generate extremely sophisticated emails based on social media profiles, making detection almost impossible.
Take Away: While AI makes defenses more robust against phishing attacks, the human element of vigilance cannot be overemphasized. Don't click on links or attachments from untrustworthy sources!
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