Publication/Creation Date

September 11 2017

Creators/Contributors

George Dvorsky (creator)
Brian Wallace (contributor)
Marc Goodman (contributor)
Deepak Dutt (contributor)
Staffan Truvé (contributor)

Description

Last year, two data scientists from security firm ZeroFOX conducted an experiment to see who was better at getting Twitter users to click on malicious links, humans or an artificial intelligence. The researchers taught an AI to study the behavior of social network users, and then design and implement its own phishing bait. In tests, the artificial hacker was substantially better than its human competitors, composing and distributing more phishing tweets than humans, and with a substantially better conversion rate.

Augments

Protecting, Predicting, Securing, Defending, Informing

Technology Keywords

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Hackers, Social Networks, Cybersecurity, Machine Learning, Cyberattacks, Cybercriminals, Neural Networks, Virtual Assistants, Information Security (Infosec), Data Mining, Phishing, Malware, Deep Learning, Big Data, Algorithms

Keywords

Security, Privacy, Surveillance, Crime, Composition, Ethics

Marketing Keywords

Twitter, ZeroFOX, SNAP_R, Black Hat USA 2017, IBM Deep Blue, Terminator, Zighra, IBM Watson, Recorded Future

Source

https://gizmodo.com/hackers-have-already-started-to-weaponize-artificial-in-1797688425