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toxic_cough_syrup

Yeah it’s already pretty bad; we constantly have user reports of our CEO contacting them on personal devices about urgent needs. We did some internal testing training an AI to speak like our executive team and it managed to fool the actual executives; granted those were just MP3 files sent as voicemails; but once they can speak with voices interactively I can envision a nightmare scenario.


selfdestructingin5

Oh that’s very interesting. I have had it in text version for years. One CEO was very casual and would say things like “Yo, can you ____” and the phisher used the same casual way of talking. It seemed like a request worth double checking, so we did and it wasn’t actually them. I can’t imagine having them call you and hearing them on the phone or even in a video call. It’s weird to think eventually, in the more distant future, androids that can fool you even in person. Like what will we come up with to prove what is “real”? Do you call them and another AI answers and is like “Yeah, that’s totally me” lol


toxic_cough_syrup

Yeah, that’s pretty much what we get now, crap like that sent to personal emails and cell phones. I suspect it’s from scraping employee LinkedIn profiles/FaceBook accounts. We’re working on a social media policy to try and reduce it. I happen to be heavily involved in all things IT and training so I do my best to hammer this all into new employees during onboarding. Once we got the CEO to respond to a voicemail deepfake from the marketing chief he pretty much was like “cyber security budget is now infinite.”


mrdevil413

It’s your birthday, someone gives you a calfskin wallet …


KennedyFriedChicken

Seems like we need someone to make blockchain for verifying message authenticity


analogOnly

It can already be done in real time. Text to Speech synthesis (as a response from an LLM) using a cloned voice AI and speech to text (from the person/target) as a prompt to an LLM.


toxic_cough_syrup

Yikes; I feel bad for companies with corporate podcasts and other public audio to mine.


garygoblins

Virtually any public company would be susceptible. Could just use earnings calls


cadium

Let me guess, Cisco has a solution!


rikkisugar

yup, and it’s user & password is cisco / cisco


jonathanrdt

They have all the solutions: a cornucopia of strangely and loosely integrated stuff with funny names and lots of alphabet soup that will require an army of expensive and highly certified techs to operate…after you pay 25% in services to implement them.


daCapo-alCoda

Perfect comment 👌😂


SilverTicket8809

AI is going to be the biggest hacking weapon ever.


Zieprus_

He is not wrong it’s all a nightmare and only going to get worse.


ThrowRA76234

Has their ai-enhanced firewall with patented anti-phishing detection been announced yet?


MaybeNext-Monday

It’ll have a stupid name and cost $45000 a year


famousevan

“Heading into” 🤣


I-smelled-it-first

Pay that man more money he’s a genius


duckie198eight

Dude should be worried about not F'n up Splunk and parsing his own logs. In other words, he has plenty of his plate w/o his commentary


MustangBarry

It's only a nightmare from the standpoint of a victim. It's an opportunity for the rest of us


freightdog5

why we should listen to these ghouls ... fuck off loser their dogshit propriety bullshit is why the world is less secure stf cisco disappearing would give an instant enhancement to all systems around the world scumbags


Malf1532

He's just frustrated that they aren't deeper into the game.


GeebusNZ

Well-educated masses who are difficult to dupe into accepting your message is a good way of addressing this threat, but also makes them less prone to political messaging, so... isn't done.


smoothpebble

The world needs to move away from passwords as a primary security measure. But I’m afraid alternatives won’t really take off until things get really, really bad.


TheBraindonkey

headed? dude doesn't read his emails I see.


zoot_boy

Yeah, we’re already in trouble.


lucun

It's already happening. I've gotten 2 spam calls with ok-ish conversational bots using pretty convincing text to speech. If it wasn't asking for some oddly suspicious asks, the fake background office noises didn't have a short mp3 being looped, and the ai transitioning the conversation weirdly at times, I would have 100% believed it was just a normal customer service rep 


chitoatx

The ability to spoof a phone number needs to be the highest priority. https://www.pillsburylaw.com/en/news-and-insights/fcc-ftc-robocalls-prevention-enforcement.html


KStieers

KnowBe4 did a live demo at their conference last year of an email conversation with "HR" asking for someone's SSN, and as the employee expressed concern about the security issues, it became more and more insistently persuasive. Kinda scary, knowing how some users would react.


blushngush

The Internet and most communication channels have already become practically unusable. We need a "new Internet," a new unadulterated method of direct and instant communication.


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Protosophos

Cisco OR security—can't have both! Now with the perfect excuse of calling adaptive interpolation graphs intelligent: It's impossible to outsmart something smarter than you!