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"Let me walk you through how that works. First, an attacker hides a malicious prompt in a message in an email that an AI-powered virtual assistant opens. The at
by zzzeek 4y ago
"Let me walk you through how that works. First, an attacker hides a malicious prompt in a message in an email that an AI-powered virtual assistant opens. The attacker’s prompt asks the virtual assistant to send the attacker the victim’s contact list or emails, or to spread the attack to every person in the recipient’s contact list. Unlike the spam and scam emails of today, where people have to be tricked into clicking on links, these new kinds of attacks will be invisible to the human eye and automated. "
wait, why does the text even have to be "white on white" then, if there are "ai assistants" that are just reading emails before we do and doing what they say? Is this a thing that's in email clients right now? literally reads the email unprompted and acts upon it? what? in what universe would that be released by any software company today ?
- throwaway71271 4y ago> literally reads the email unprompted and acts upon it? what? many antivirus programs open emails and click on links to make sure they are not viruses on the other end
- zzzeek 4y agohow would an antivirus program actually click on a link without that being a directly compromising activity? the link itself will include identifying information that's sent home to the attacker