Weaponized AI and facial recognition enter the hacking world

Meet Social Mapper, a facial recognition tool that searches for targets across numerous social networks, and the highly evasive and highly targeted AI-powered malware DeepLocker. The open-source intelligence-gathering tool Social Mapper uses facial recognition to automatically search for targets across eight social media sites: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google, the Russian social networking service VKontakte, and the Chinese social networking sites Weibo and Douban. Social Mapper was developed by Trustwave's Jacob Wilkins to help pen testers and red teamers with social engineering attacks. Instead of manually searching social media sites for name and pictures, Social Mapper makes it possible to automate such scans "on a mass scale with hundreds or thousands of individuals." There are three stages to Social Mapper; the second stage is automatically searching social media sites for the targets online.