Meta AI's recent hack is a terrifying wake-up call for anyone who puts their trust in AI systems
Combating spam and phishing attacks is now, thanks to AI, almost a full-time job. These hackers and criminals are constantly adjusting their attacks with increasingly clever social engineering, and now their latest target is AI itself.
And sometimes even AI falls for it.
Recently, Meta hastily patched a Meta AI chatbot security hole that allowed enterprising attackers to alter Instagram account passwords via prompt injection.
A prompt injection is a query that causes the Generative AI platform to override its own rules and instructions. It's like when a social-engineering phishing attack somehow prompts you to act against your own best interests.
When someone runs a social engineering attack on you, they use social triggers like danger to yourself or others, security, threat of imprisonment, assumption of law breaking, to flood you with emotion and scramble your brain to override logical questions like, "Why would the bank ask me for my...
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