Jay Chaudhryfounder of $30 billion ($44.4 billion) cybersecurity company Zscaleris well aware of the growing risks posed by artificial intelligence deep fakes. After all, a scammer used Chaudhry’s voice to scam one of his own employees.
“There was a situation where someone with my voice called one of our salespeople and said, ‘This is Jay calling,’” Chaudhry said. Brief overview of the capital while traveling in Sydney. The scammer quickly hung up and sent a text message saying, “Hey, I’m in a bad area, I can’t talk… Please buy 10 of these gift certificates.”
The hapless subordinate, convinced that it was his company’s CEO asking him, ended up spending $1,500 on gift cards. Chaudhry laughed it off, because it could have been much worse. And he expects it to be even worse.
“We have to be paranoid about this,” said Chaudhry, who was in Australia to promote Zscaler’s integration into Google Chrome Enterprise and a partnership with Nvidia which uses generative AI that analyzes enterprise data and can highlight threats and breach points.
Generative AI has changed the cybersecurity threat landscape over the past two years. This isn’t because chatbots can generate malicious code (malware has been available cheaply or for free on internet forums for a decade) but rather because AI enhances the social engineering capabilities of scammers.
