AI phishing is grammatically perfect and starts with harmless bait
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I mean, phishing has exploded in, in like new and impressive ways since the LLM stuff, because used to, you could really depend on poor translation to sort of identify, but now
Episode 217: Post Economic (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:05:09 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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From his IT day job, Dave explains that you used to spot phishing by poor translation. LLMs ended that. Links and attachments get blocked quickly, so attackers now send a harmless-sounding note to bait a reply, build trust, and only later send the link. You could get ten such emails, two legit and eight phishing, and never tell the difference.
Not in the audio. Guest episode (Matt Medeiros; 0.35 threshold). This segment comes before the guest joins and is Dave describing his corporate IT work.
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Episode 217: Post Economic (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:09:27 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
you into replying to them. So they establish a look of trust and then later they hit you with the link. And so what you get, which the, the initial phishing email is no longer the payload. It's just bait.
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