Artificial intelligence (AI) will make it easy for amateur cyber scammers to conduct phishing attacks using fake emails that appear genuine, according to the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The latest assessment from the NCSC, part of the GCHQ intelligence agency, notes that generative AI has become widely available to the public through open-source chatbot systems like ChatGPT, which create content from simple prompts. The result is ever more convincing fake emails, free of tell-tale grammar and spelling mistakes, including phishing messages that trick recipients into revealing account passwords or personal information. 'To 2025, generative AI and large language models will make it difficult for everyone, regardless of their level of cybersecurity understanding, to assess whether an email or password reset request is genuine, or to identify phishing, spoofing or social engineering attempts,' the agency said. It added that ransomware attacks are also expected to increase...
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