Amid all the recent reports of AI systems autonomously going off the rails and hacking into third-party organizations, it’s almost easy to forget that human hackers are still out there, experimenting with AI in all kinds of nefarious ways. A new report from Bloomberg, however, is a reminder of just how quickly AI-enabled cybercrime is evolving—and how unprepared the world is to deal with it.
According to the report, a litany of high-profile hedge funds, including Citadel and Two Sigma, were targeted by recent voice phishing, or “vishing,” attacks, in which AI is used to simulate the voices of actual humans in an attempt to skirt security…
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