AI heightens social engineering risks
AI is transforming social engineering by enabling cybercriminals to craft highly convincing phishing messages, build credible digital identities, and use deepfake audio or video to impersonate executives.
AI-generated voices almost indistinguishable from real ones
Recent research shows that AI-generated voices – especially those cloned from real people – are now almost impossible to tell apart from real human voices. In one study, participants often couldn’t tell whether they were hearing a real person or an artificial voice.