Jay Chaudhry, founder of the $30 billion cybersecurity company Zscaler, is keenly aware of the growing risks posed by artificial intelligence deep fakes. This awareness hit home when a scammer used Chaudhry\u2019s voice to deceive one of his employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSomeone mimicked my voice and called one of our salespeople, saying, \u2018This is Jay calling,\u2019\u201d Chaudhry recounted during a trip to Sydney in an interview with Capital Brief. The scammer quickly hung up and followed up with a text message: \u201cHey, I\u2019m in a bad zone, I can\u2019t talk\u2026 please buy 10 of these gift certificates.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Believing the request came from his CEO, the employee spent $1,500 on gift cards. Chaudhry, while able to laugh it off, acknowledged the situation could have been far worse and expressed concern for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We need to be paranoid about it,” said Chaudhry, who was in Australia to promote Zscaler’s integration into Google Chrome Enterprise and a partnership with Nvidia. This partnership leverages generative AI to analyze company data, highlighting potential threats and breach points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Generative AI has significantly impacted the cybersecurity threat landscape over the past two years. While chatbots generating malicious code is not a new phenomenon \u2014 malware has been readily available on internet forums for over a decade \u2014 AI is now enhancing scammers\u2019 social engineering capabilities, making their schemes more convincing and dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jay Chaudhry, founder of the $30 billion cybersecurity company Zscaler, is keenly aware of the growing risks posed by artificial intelligence deep fakes. This awareness hit home when a scammer used Chaudhry\u2019s voice to deceive one of his employees. \u201cSomeone mimicked my voice and called one of our salespeople, saying, \u2018This is Jay calling,\u2019\u201d Chaudhry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-4046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-scams","tag-scam-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4048,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions\/4048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}