New dangers lurk in your e-mails
Cyber crooks using AI are coming up with fresh ideas, but there is help at hand
14 March 2024 - 05:00
There was a time when a badly worded sentence in a subject line was enough to identify a scam e-mail, but those days are fast disappearing.
AI and with it the likes of ChatGPT are allowing confidence tricksters to write better e-mails that are fooling victims into falling for romance scams, and opening them up to ransomware attacks and identity theft...
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