As artificial intelligence (AI) advances, many cybercriminals can use it to launch more complex and focused attacks like deepfake technology and phishing.
Cybercriminals use language generation techniques and AI-powered models to create emails that look authentic and trick recipients into disclosing private information.
AI is able to imitate the content, tone, and style of real communication.AI is used by cybercriminals in phishing, financial fraud, distributed denial of service (DDoS), romantic scams.
According to experts,AI is being used to create malware that is more adaptive and resilient. AI-powered malware is able to analyze network traffic, spot trends in cyber security defenses, and change its approach to evade detection.
AI is used by cybercriminals to crack passwords. Hackers can create extremely likely password guesses by using AI algorithms that can analyze millions of passwords and identify recurring patterns. This technique, called password spraying, is a major threat to internet security and is significantly more effective than conventional brute-force techniques. Also, by learning from unsuccessful efforts and increasing their chances of success over time, AI-driven password-cracking tools can get beyond two-factor authentication (2FA).
Deepfakes are a tool that cybercriminals now using to influence financial transactions and blackmail victims by creating compromising videos.
