- By Shraddha Goled
Every day, on average, 56 million phishing emails are sent, and it takes just 82 seconds for a person to be victimised by such attacks. Phishing is one of the oldest yet effective forms of a cybersecurity threat. Over time it has graduated from scamming emails from a Nigerian prince to more sophisticated and sly techniques, such as Distributed Spam Distraction, polymorphic attacks, and visual similarity attack.
Artificial intelligence has played a great role in thwarting attacks of such nature. Let us look at a few such examples.
AI for Restricting Phishing Attacks
In a phishing attack, hackers infiltrate a system by exploiting a vulnerability in a system. With time, the hacking techniques have only become more creative. As much as 25% of phishing emails bypass the traditional email gateways.
AI dynamically learns the mailbox and the communication habits, due to which the system can detect any inconsistencies in email data and metadata. The signature detection method is an
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Shraddha Goled
I am a technology journalist with AIM. I write stories focused on the AI landscape in India and around the world with a special interest in analysing its long term impact on individuals and societies. Reach out to me at shraddha.goled@analyticsindiamag.com.
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