AI is helping criminals compose phishing emails and could be weaponised for much worse cyber crime. But it will also help to detect threats and create defences.
Cyber criminals are already using generative artificial intelligence to craft more persuasive scams, but the greater threats the technology poses are still emerging, the country’s inaugural cyber coordinator says.
AI threats to cybersecurity will be coming at Australia like a freight train, says Air Marshal Darren Goldie, National Cybersecurity CoordinatorShould one powerful enough ever be built, a quantum computer could theoretically crack almost all the encryption that has secured financial and other data systems for decades.
“When you look at spam and phishing and things like that, the writing style is a lot better because they are all using ChatGPT to write the phishing links. Paul Jevtovic, the chief financial crime risk and group money laundering officer at the National Australia Bank, said even when the victim of a phishing attack suspected they were under attack, cyber criminals were using AI-tools to stay a step ahead of them.
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