A hacker has revealed how cyber criminals are using artificial intelligence to clone people’s voices and steal thousands of pounds.
Dr Katie Paxton-Fear is a cybersecurity lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and also an ‘ethical hacker’ who ‘hacks companies before the bad guys do’.
She has partnered with Vodafone Business on a new campaign to drive awareness of the rising threat of AI phishing scams on the UK business sector.
New research from the company suggests that office juniors are putting their workplace more at risk of AI phishing attacks than any other age group.
The study highlighted an ‘age gap’ in awareness – with younger staff aged 18 to 24 appearing more likely to fall for the new breed of AI phishing scams than their older peers.
Gen Z staff appear much easier to hack than most with nearly half (46%) having not updated their work password for more than a year, compared to an …