Phishing emails increase over 1,200 percent since ChatGPT launch

A new survey of over 300 cybersecurity professionals from SlashNext looks at cybercriminal behavior and activity on the Dark Web particularly as it relates to leveraging Generative AI tools and chatbots and finds a startling 1,265 percent increase in malicious phishing emails since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. It also shows a 967 percent increase in credential phishing in particular and that 68 percent of all phishing emails are text-based Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks. 'We cannot ignore statistics like this,' says Patrick Harr, CEO, of SlashNext. 'While there has been some debate about the true influence of… [Continue Reading]