Cyber experts warn about threat of AI phishing attacks

Robots could mimic writing styles and habits of millions of people to launch devastating scams, cyber security experts have warned. Hackers could use AI programmes to impersonate individuals after malicious software harvests records and emails from their computers. Such a scam could'explode' as colleagues and contacts are tricked into opening files and infecting their own systems. A House of Lords committee has also been told that criminal gangs could deploy AI to sift masses of material collected from hacked devices such as smart TVs at companies - and work out what can intelligence can be used to make money. The potential for organised gangs to'scale up' their activities using developments in artificial intelligence was spelled out in evidence to peers by Cambridge-based cyber security experts Darktrace The potential for organised gangs to'scale up' their activities using developments in artificial intelligence was spelled out in evidence to peers by respected Cambridge-based cyber security experts Darktrace.