As the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made our daily tasks much easier and more sophisticated, cybercriminals have also evolved to become smarter. Even these hackers depend on the name and goodwill of some of the giant technology companies, such as Apple and Microsoft, to scam people. Apple and Microsoft are well-known brands and the use of AI in these scams makes it harder for the general public to detect, which is a big concern right now.
These types of scams have accelerated, especially when the new generation iPhones have been introduced to the market and people are in a hurry to get their hands on these high-end devices. It is surprising that brands like Microsoft and Apple have caused a lot of concern among security experts, as many users easily trust these names and their goodwill.
According to a report by a security expert, these brands have compromised user support for their technology queries, and hackers have also developed new methods to impersonate these numbers and target Apple and Microsoft customers with messages. malicious popups.
We must know that panic always works in these types of incidents, and most likely, if the fake customer support says that users’ devices are under immediate and urgent virus threat and asks them to call their numbers With fake customer support, users will most likely follow such misleading instructions. Security experts say these hackers exist everywhere and are capable of forcing victims to share sensitive information such as banking credentials and passwords.
On the other hand, AI has made the situation worse in this regard. We know that Artificial Intelligence has made these scams more difficult to identify and detect. Hackers are exploiting loopholes in technology and giving security specialists a nightmare. In these scams, the AI tool allows scammers to create a website that looks genuine as it features the Apple or Microsoft logo, making it difficult for users to sniff out the problem.
Technologies like deepfake videos and AI voice cloning have given rise to a new dark side of such frauds, due to which innocent users invariably get trapped in such scams and lose their well-earned money.
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