Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast - EP 282: AI’s Role in Scam Detection and Prevention
Episode Date: May 29, 2024If you think you know scammers, just wait. ↳ Voice cloning will fool the best of us. ↳ Deepfakes are getting sophisticated. ↳ Once-scammy emails now sound real. How can AI help? In a lot of w...ays. Yuri Dvoinos, Chief Innovation Officer at Aura, joins us to discuss AI's role in scam detection and prevention. Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode pageJoin the discussion: Ask Jordan and Yuri questions on AI and scam detectionRelated Episodes: Ep 182: AI Efficiencies in Cyber – A Double-Edged SwordEp 202: The Holy Grail of AI Mass Adoption – GovernanceUpcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: info@youreverydayai.comConnect with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:1. Sophistication of AI in Scams2. Countermeasures to Combat AI Scams3. Deepfakes and Their Increasing PrevalenceTimestamps:01:20 Daily AI news04:45 About Yuri and Aura07:32 Growing impact of impersonation and trust hacking.12:35 Consumer app with state-of-the-art protection.13:48 New technology scans emails to protect users.19:36 Need for awareness of sophisticated multi-platform scams.20:33 Be cautious of potential multichannel scams26:44 Scams are getting sophisticated, AI may worsen.30:05 Different organizations need varying levels of security.31:25 Deepfakes raise concerns about truth and trust.34:47 It's hard to detect scam communication online.Keywords:AI Scams, Jordan Wilson, Yuri Dvoinos, Deepfakes, AI Technology, Verification System, Online Interactions, Cyberattacks, Business Security, Scam Detection, Communication Channel Verification, Language Models, AI impersonation, Small Business Scams, Scammer Automation, Aura, Message Protection Technology, Call Analysis, Email Scanning, Voice Synthesizer Technology, Multichannel Scams, 2FA, Cybersecurity Training, Digital Trust, Cybersecurity, Sophisticated Corporate Scams, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Aura Cybersecurity Company, Online Safety.Send Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info) Start Here ▶️Not sure where to start when it comes to AI? Start with our Start Here Series. You can listen to the first drop -- Episode 691 -- or get free access to our Inner Cricle community and all episodes: StartHereSeries.com Also, here's a link to the entire series on a Spotify playlist.
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Scams are not easy to detect anymore.
They used to be extremely easy to spot.
You could spot them miles away.
But with AI means more sophisticated scams.
So now more than ever, it's so important for your business to really take scam detection and
prevention extremely seriously when you're talking about cybersecurity.
So that's what we're going to be talking about.
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So the former lead safety researcher at Open AI, Jan Leakey, has joined rival AI startup Anthropic after resigning from Open AI earlier this month.
Just in two weeks span, we saw a very, very public resignation from Leakey on Twitter,
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And they focus on superalignment.
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InVVDIA's remarkable growth this year has seen its stock or its share value more
than double and is obviously attributed to its success in the AI industry
and a significant fivefold increase in the data center segment.
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you did miss that, the Open AI CEO and co-founder, Sam Altman, was unexpectedly fired November 17th,
but then was rehired November 20th, three days later. So at the time, the board said Altman had been,
quote, consistently not candid. And so Toner was one that voted to remove him, him being Sam Altman,
and then she later resigned from the board. So in this new interview, Toner revealed some new details
and said the board was not informed about the launch of chat GPT and that they found out about it on Twitter, which is wild to think about.
Toner also accused Altman of lying to the board on multiple occasions and said the board at that time could no longer trust him.
She also detailed other employees' accounts of Altman's reported toxic atmosphere and psychological abuse.
So the drama is always brewing in AI, but that's, hey, that's why we cover it every single day.
So we're not here to chat about AI news all day.
We're here to talk, which I'm extremely excited about,
AI's role in scam, sorry, in scam detection and prevention.
So if you're joining us live, get your questions in now.
So thanks for everyone, Brian from Minnesota and Woozy from Kansas City, Fred, and everyone else.
Thanks for joining us.
But please help me in welcoming our guests for today.
I'm extremely excited to bring on to the show.
There we go.
We have it there.
So please help me welcome Yuri Vienos, the chief innovation officer at ORA.
Yuri, thank you so much for joining the Everyday AI show.
Thank you for having me.
All right, absolutely.
So, I mean, let's just start at the top.
Tell me a little bit about what you do at ORA.
Right.
So I drive innovation functions at ORA, which is a Boston-based cybersecurity company
for individuals and families.
We help everyone stay safe online.
And it's just becoming such a massively difficult job to stay safe online.
One of the things that I've actually done lately is scam protection technologies.
And scams are on the rise.
And as you can imagine, I'm going to chat about using a lot of AI to help everyone be safer online.
But as a matter of fact, a lot of bad guys are equally using AI,
are equally empowered with all those technology and tools.
And they make our job much harder.
So it's a very interesting dynamic.
And it's been up and down.
And we see a lot of changes within those several last years.
Yeah.
And maybe walk us through those changes.
I can only imagine what the role of a chief innovation
officer at a company providing cybersecurity looks like and how much it has changed over the past
couple of years, especially with this, you know, kind of surgence of large language models and
generative AI. But Yuri, maybe just walk us through. How has just your, not just your role,
but how has the industry changed with now generative AI and large language models?
Yeah, absolutely, Jordan. And that is the right question. I think the nature of scams.
You know, scams is not a new concept.
We've all known scams for many years.
A lot of times when I hear a scam or something is a scam,
we think about something like a spamming message or something ridiculously dumb,
but that somehow we tend to click.
We rarely think about extremely sophisticated attacks that you can barely recognize.
Well, now we got to the point where they got smarter and smarter every single day.
So what we are seeing is that, and it all started with, and by the way, scams are on the rights, right?
So we know that the impact, the monetary impact and the amount of victims is growing year over year.
So this problem is getting only bigger.
We have first seen a very interesting tendency with mimicking writing styles.
And just a quick background information.
So many decades ago, everyone was trying to hack a system, a computer or a system.
Well, now that it's, it becomes very difficult to hack a system.
So now everyone tries to hack a human being or us, typically by impersonating.
So their first call is to impersonate someone you trust, whether it's a bank representative,
you're a friend or anyone else, customer support, doing a refund, whatever this is, right?
financial institution, they just want to establish this trust and credibility. So they literally are
trying to hack our cognitive ability or trust by default sort of mental disposition. And there is a
very interesting thing that is very hardwired in our brains. We tend to authenticate a person
over texting through their writing style. So for example, if you're a person,
your mom writes you, hey, Jordy.
And that is how she starts, every single text message.
And, you know, there is someone that says, mom, and the message starts with, hey, Jordy.
And then, you know, they might use some specific language in addition to that.
You almost immediately start to ignore everything else.
Like you have complete trust over that message.
And that is exactly what's being exploited right now by this camera.
as they are using large language models to mimic someone's writing.
All it takes to do, by the way, is to have several references or sample communication letters
or examples of how someone is writing.
So basically you need to communicate with someone.
And once you know how they're right, and of course, better write to you,
then they can mimic that style and then can try to impersonate someone that you know.
You know, and I have so many questions that I love that example that you gave, right?
Like, yeah, someone could just very easily impersonate you just by looking at your writing style, right?
Like I have so much of my own writing online.
I was a former journalist that's out there.
So it's pretty easy.
But, you know, I'm curious because, you know, I think that previously scams may be targeted larger companies, enterprise companies because there was more to gain, right?
And maybe that's why scams had to be more sophisticated.
but, you know, I've even had friends who are small business owners, you know, not, you know, thousands of employees, but just small ones now being targeted by scams.
You know, with AI, do companies of all size now, Yuri, need to be on the lookout, whereas I think maybe before it was just larger companies.
Like, are you seeing that in your role?
We definitely are.
And this is anecdotally, like, I don't have a hard date on that, but I have a feeling that if you fall,
Have you followed any of those rumors about losing jobs to AI, Jordan?
Yeah, I might have talked about that once or twice here on the show.
I think this is what has happened to scammers.
I think their job has been taken over by AI.
And I'm joking about this, of course.
But I think what's happening is that in the earlier days,
we were seeing someone physically writing all those messages.
So there were some sort of call center, chat center people.
that we're trying to create all that communication.
Right now, that's not what we see happening.
Right now, most of those communications being automated.
Think about someone, Instagram account being hacked.
What they do, they take everyone within the contact list.
They analyze the profile of the contact that you have,
and they create a tailored message.
Use an AI so you can send message from a hacked account,
can send message to all your contact base within five minutes.
Obviously, this is automated.
This is a large language model dealing.
You know, and I'm curious, maybe could you walk us through like an actual use case or example, you know, at ORA?
I'm sure that you have many clients, some you can talk about, some you can't, but maybe just walk us through typically what scam detection looks like for businesses.
Because I can only imagine there's, you know, so many now different ways that, you know, companies can, you know, fall victim to these scams.
Whereas maybe before it was a little easier to spot.
Now I feel it can hit you from all sides with generative AI.
But maybe could you just walk us through, you know, like a use case of, you know,
essentially here's what companies like our types of clients are seeing.
And here is how we specifically act against it.
Absolutely.
So we have a consumer offering, which is a consumer app that is a suite of tools
that has everything you need in order to stay safe online,
which is an absolutely state of the art set of,
technologies that will help you include in scam protection. The way we help businesses is by
making every single employee of those businesses more protected. And we know that we all have
some portion of our work on our personal devices. So we believe that by protecting every single
employees and families of your employees, the overall security posture of the organization is
going to be way stronger and way better. Now, what we are offering within ORA is
we have a message protection technology that filters all unknown incoming messages,
or messages from unknown contexts.
We do the same thing for calls, which is where it gets very interesting,
as we can understand the intention of the call,
we can understand the early signals of the call,
signals of the scam, sorry,
we can also understand that something funky is happening on the call
in the middle of the conversation with an unknown number.
And then we can identify that as well.
And lastly, we're just about to release our last technology that scans every single
email in your email inbox.
And we have so much our inbox are over cluttered.
So we believe that you have to protect yourself within every single communication channel.
And for every single communication channel, we have created a little AI assistant that will
meticulously check every single thing you can possibly think of and see if that is similar to
other scams. If that is trying to explode your psychological bias, like, is there any sense of urgency?
Is there any psychological pressure happening? And all of the other things. Is this the first time
you're receiving this email from that specific email? Does that, is that email look similar
to other email you're constantly exchanging messages with, but you haven't.
never received emails from this before. So all of those, I can keep going on and on and on.
There are hundreds or dozens of those triggers that we're looking at. And of course, it is so
difficult for us to look at every single one of them for every incoming message. But it is so
easy for AI to augment your ability to recognize riskier communications. Yeah, exactly. I'm sure
it's a challenging, you know, tasks to take on just because of how easy.
scams are now. And speaking of that, you know, maybe, maybe with some, a little bit of humor here,
but I love this question here from, from Woozy asking. And I'm going to ask the flip side after
we hear your answer, Yuri. But so Woozy here asking, what's the worst scam attempt that you
have seen or heard about? Because I'm sure that they're getting lazier and lazier and not very good
because of AI. But maybe what's what's the worst one that you've seen or heard about?
Can I give you something that is somewhat related to Orator, but more like anecdotal?
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I was, yeah, and it's probably more.
I'm answering the question, the worst scam, the most ridiculous scam I've seen happened in Indonesia.
Very recently, I think a man started to, someone has been using online dating.
and they found a potential partner through an online dating platform.
And then they got married and a person realized that I think it was like a week or two weeks after marriage
that this was another man that he married and all of that was a scam.
So someone was trying to impersonate someone else and this is how far it went,
which was very absolutely ridiculous.
So this stroke me as, you know, just how creative some people are when they're dealing with scams.
In terms of the AI and the most ridiculous scams that I've seen in a more, in a most serious manner,
I was pretty surprised by the deep fakes.
I think the deep fakes are being real.
And we can chat about this, Jordan, if you want.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Because, you know, now, so there's different things, right?
So there's AI clones, right, which a lot of companies are using, I think, in smart,
responsible ways, right, like to be able to provide training and personalized learning and
development.
So there's authorized ways that you can essentially, you know, clone yourself.
But then there's these unauthorized way, right, which is deepfakes when someone without
your permission makes a version of you.
So, yeah, I mean, let's maybe talk about the technology side first.
And then we can get into maybe some things to look out for, Yuri.
but, you know, how has just the availability of this generative AI technology changed deepfakes?
Because, yeah, it seems like it's easier than ever before to create something like this.
Absolutely.
So if you think about how human beings are communicating with each other, it's really, at least online.
It's really three things.
It's texting.
It's phone conversation or audio-only conversation.
and then it's video and audio conversation.
So, of course, with texting, it gets a little bit easier.
It's getting more complicated with mimicking someone else's writing styles,
but it is still manageable to detect the scam.
Now, with voice, things become murky, right?
Because one can generate voice synthesizer
using like less than a minute of someone's talking as a reference.
And then people think that, oh, but that's, that still doesn't sound right, right?
You can still understand those little bits and bits.
So it's a voice synthesizer.
Yes, that is right.
But this technology is getting so much better, so aggressively that I'm not sure if that's
going to be right in one year.
And just to add to that, people add background noise to mask those.
imperfections of the voice synthesizers.
So you might receive a call from your CEO.
And the phone number was also spoofed you.
You're not using the call protection.
Okay, you can get a spoof phone number,
incoming phone number that is from a random number
that says the name of your CEO.
And then someone who talks with a voice
very similar to your CEO with a lot of background noise,
like a New York street or something.
It's a lot of background noise and says,
hey, I just sent you something I need you to do blah.
How likely you're going to obey.
You know, and it might seem, you know, if you're not following, you know, if you're not
following the space, something like this might seem far-fetched, but it's really not, right?
Like so, like I said, I've had friends, you know, even, you know, get hit with these types
of scams, you know, whether it's just email and, you know, but multiple, on multiple platforms as
as well. So maybe you're a kid, can we talk about that, you know, and maybe some some safeguards
that people need to take because I guess if you get a scam, it might be easier to detect if
it's one platform. But what happens then when it starts hitting us from multiple places and it
does seem very sophisticated and maybe coordinated from multiple platforms? So maybe number one,
how can business leaders look out for that? And then number two, what should they be doing about
that or common sense steps that they should be taking to protect themselves and their businesses.
Right. So the good news is that multi-channel scams are still rare or much less frequent
that a single channel scam. So my first advice to just everyone across the board is that as
as dark as it may sound don't trust anything that you might feel, might think the recent.
or suspicious. Like if there is clicking on the link, sending the money or doing something
involved, like just you received a WhatsApp message, pick up a phone, call that person and say,
hey, I received that. What do you mean? If you received an I message, text them over Insta,
whatever. But hacking two channels at the same time is much less likely in terms of the
impersonate. And so that is a very simple advice that all of us can follow, and that will
help, hopefully will eliminate most of the scams. But of course, for businesses, I think
the more targeted, sophisticated multi-channel attacks are becoming more frequent. And then
the question becomes like, what do you do? So obviously, you have to train people you work with.
And I got to say that cybersecurity trainings might be the most boring training.
the world. Like we all, that is a necessary evil, but I think there is a massive opportunity to make
them much more entertaining, memorable, joyful, and I think we should absolutely do that. So just be
a little bit more empathetic with your workforce. No one wants to read a huge manual of how do,
the question is how might we make this truly enjoyable, truly memorable? I think that's one thing.
the second thing obviously you have to have a person inside your organization that everyone knows
they need to report they can they can write if they see something suspicious so someone has to be
physically present there to protect you and I think between those three things to a fay
responsible person and of course some training in terms of critical thinking not all of us know
about inability of trust like we used to trust everything we see now it's just not the case
we're not wired that way.
So I think there has to be some training, of course.
You should be safe.
You know, you bring up a good point because I think that, you know, over the last,
even with social media, you know, over the last 20 or 30 years when it comes to
consuming information from the internet, I think we give it just a one-off, you know,
does this pass, you know, my own human detection like yes or no.
It seems like, you know, maybe that's a good.
habit that might become a bad habit, right?
Where we just look at something quickly and we're like, yep, this seems
legit.
I trust it.
It almost seems like we might have to rewire our brain as scams get more sophisticated to
really look into like, hey, yeah, this video looks real, this, this voice looks real,
this text looks real.
But we might have to unlearn some things.
So what are maybe some of those key things to look out for?
So you already mentioned, you know, single channel scams, hit them up on a different
channel. But maybe what are some maybe telltale signs or, you know, something that businesses
should be looking out for that normally, you're like, ah, I normally wouldn't look at this or
look into this. So maybe what are some of those, not red flags, but some of those things that might
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There are lots of signs of a scam.
And just, I think, adjust into the reality that you cannot trust out of the gate to most of the things you see and you hear is a good rule of thumb.
And then, of course, how can you be on even on a higher alert, right?
So another good sign of scam is sense of urgency.
Like if someone is asking you to do it right away, this might be exactly where you're, you should wait and hold off.
If someone is applying any psychological pressure, like, hey, you know, I just had a call from CEO.
You have to do it now.
Like, don't buy that.
Just don't react to that.
You have to learn to ignore that because that is more likely to be a sign of a scam.
And this, of course, happens when you believe you are.
talking to someone you can trust.
So calling back, involving anyone else within this organization, double check,
and being extra careful is, of course, my large advice.
And then scams are being extremely creative, anywhere from jobs interviews,
you know, fake job postings to sophisticated corporate scams.
But it's difficult for me to chat about that because they are the variety.
is high, but the principles always stay unchanged.
Yeah.
And, you know, even when you talk there about just the sophistication, I mean, it's getting
really good.
And I think people need to be aware of it that even if you are a, you know, a smart,
intelligent business person, you can't easily be duped, right?
There was something we talked about on the show a couple months ago.
I believe it was back in February where a finance worker essentially,
got on a Zoom call with what he thought were all his coworkers. It looked like them, talked like them.
It was video and they were interfacing, right? And this company, a very sophisticated scam,
ended up, you know, essentially stealing $25 million from this company just because of the level
of sophistication. So, you know, in instances like that, you're, you know, I know there's no,
you know, catch-all, but even just when we talk about the future of scams, because I think, you know,
we've talked about, you know, as an example, GBT40 and Google Astra, you know, their project
Astra where AI models can kind of see and react in real time. But you have to think that this
type of technology will also exist for the bad guys as well. So, you know, when it comes to the
future of scabs, how should we be looking at that? What should we be paying attention to? And
how can we actually detect them as they become more and more sophisticated? Absolutely. I fundamentally,
believe you have to use a technology. If someone is using AI against you and you are,
you know, not using any reduction for a better say, I think you are, you become more vulnerable.
That's just the reality of things. So I think using AI back to, which is almost the beauty of
AI, it's, it helps you to augment your vision. It just helps you to recognize the risk. It's almost
like coming up with this risk score, right? This communication seems more less risky and here's
why. I think that is, that is a very good thing. I also think that, unfortunately, we don't have
a really good answer to defakes right now. That's just the reality of things. Someone is forging
videos. It's absolutely doable to impersonate someone, someone's voice, someone's video appearance.
that's massive, right?
That's the impact of misuse or potential misinformation as disinformation is massive.
As we believe what we see, I think we just all have to be more, much more critically,
become much more critical thinkers.
And just know about that.
Know that you cannot trust things that you see online or through digital communication
or recorded communication out of the gate
as we used to many years ago.
Yeah. Yeah. And I like what Monica is saying here,
you know, kind of this concept. I think, you know,
people come up with like a family password, right,
in case they're ever, you know, being targeted, you know.
But maybe, I mean, should businesses be doing something similarly?
Like, you know, before something is signed off,
like should businesses have like a, like a family password that says like,
yes, this is real, you know, this isn't, you know, a scammer?
Is that taking it too far, or might we see something like that being commonplace in the future, Yuri?
I don't know. I think we might. I think I think organizations are different by their nature and everyone is different.
If you are a very small business, you're in one place, but then if you're growing rapidly, but you still don't have a CSO or someone who's responsible for information security in your company, I think you become higher on the radar.
for sophisticated targeted scams, but you don't necessarily buttoned up your security,
and that makes even more vulnerable.
So I think, you know, if you're an average consumer, just, you know, again, following those
basic rules will help you to eliminate most of the nonsense.
If you are a larger company or a larger or definitely use some tools, or better invest
in the security, invest in someone who can take care of this, or those things get more
sophisticated and it's just difficult to manage this part-time. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I'm curious,
what not keeps you up at night, but what do you worry about, right? So obviously, you know,
you and your company provide solutions, but what is that thing that you still worry about,
specifically when it comes to AI being used in business scams? What kind of keeps you up at night
in that regard? I think the video, like I said, I think the deep fakes is something that,
we just haven't cracked this, you know, we didn't figure this out. We haven't figured this out yet.
It's very difficult to recognize a scam. It's very difficult to understand how to deal with that.
Obviously, someone is impersonating someone. They have the exact same appearance, the exact same voice.
How do you differentiate what's the ground source of truth? How do you now?
not, you know, internet has used to be the most free place in the world, and now there's so much
misinformation or garbage information there. It just, it's not something that I'm worried about
from a corporat standpoint or how do, we absolutely will, a lot of extremely smart people are
working to solve these problems. But I do tend to think that it got to the point where you
can trust what you see. And I don't like that, of course.
and I don't like where it's going.
Yeah, yeah.
Great.
Another great question here.
So Monica asking, do you see insider cyber attacks at medium and large businesses?
Something I didn't even think about, right?
So we're always thinking about, you know, these threats from the outside.
But yeah, what about at large enterprise companies?
Is that something that comes up?
And if so, you know, what steps should we be taking to maybe mitigate that or maybe help prevent that?
Well, I think that this is a separate topic from scams, right?
So insider threats, I think they've been here forever.
I don't have, again, I don't have the hard data on that.
But I think this is something that like the Trojan horses, if you will,
they have been happening for decades.
I have seen mass targeted scam attacks.
So imagine that someone has identified 25 key employees of your company, and someone has sent them almost simultaneously a message from the CEO, and the CEO says to do something immediately.
All it takes for one person to buy it out of 25, and you might be compromising someone else's company security.
about security, right? So that is something that is happening quite often. But unfortunately,
I can comment on the insider threat. I think it's a different beast. Sure, no, that makes
sense. So, I mean, we've talked about a lot in today's conversation. So, you know, we went over,
you know, as an example, you know, not paying as much attention to, you know, single channel attacks
and maybe verifying them on multi-channels. Kind of the concept now that with AI, people are hacking humans
instead of hacking systems and, you know, how easy it can be to replicate someone's writing style
and how people are using, you know, large language models to do that and to, you know,
launch more and more kind of cyber attacks.
But, you know, as we wrap up, maybe one is the one important, the one most important piece
of tactical advice that you have for business leaders when it comes to understanding
AI's role in scam detection and prevention.
Just imagine that it is impossible to recognize if the communication is a scam.
It is so good that it's no matter how a critical thinker you are,
it's just not feasible for you to know,
to differentiate what's real from what's not real.
So how can you protect yourself in such an environment?
And I think, again, going back to 2FA, not making hasty, immediate decisions, calling back, using second communication channel is what actually will help you to verify that you are communicating with someone you can, in fact, trust.
I think that trust is something that everyone online will have to work a little bit more to gain.
and we just have to stay cautious about that.
I love that.
I love that.
So much good advice for business leaders,
especially with this new sweeping.
I mean, so many AI scams out there, very sophisticated.
But some great advice here today on the show.
So, Yuri, thank you so much for joining the Everyday AI show.
We really appreciate your time.
Thank you for having me.
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