An artificial intelligence tool for defending firms against
business email compromise (BEC) attacks has been launched by SaaS provider SlashNext.
The new solution -- Generative HumanAI -- helps brands thwart sophisticated multichannel messaging
attacks by identifying current zero-hour threats and “a massive number of future ones,” says Patrick Harr, CEO of SlashNext.
According to the company, the
platform includes such features as BEC Generative AI augmentation, file-attachment inspection and contextual analysis and sender-impersonation analysis, combined with natural-language
processing, computer vision, and machine learning and relationship graphs, to thwart sophisticated multichannel messaging attacks, the company says.
"BEC is a $43 billion problem for
organizations, according to the FBI, and now with ChatGPT, the opportunities are boundless for hackers to modify code, simulate conversations and launch attacks faster than any human," Harr notes.
The company claims that ChatGPT, a chatbot built by OpenAI and funded by Microsoft, can answer questions in “clear, well-punctuated” prose.
"Generative AI tools like ChatGPT
will have profound security ramifications to organizations as threat actors weaponize these tools to rapidly target users with tailored malware and BEC attacks," states Karen S. Evans, Former CIO
at the Department of Homeland Security.