Artificial intelligence (AI) has led to an explosion in online scams, a major travel firm has warned.
Marnie Wilking, chief information security officer at Booking.com, said there has been an increase of up to 900% in the last 18 months.
In particular, she said scammers are now able to create more sophisticated phishing emails since the arrival of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools became public.
‘Of course, we’ve had phishing since the dawn of email, but the uptick started shortly after ChatGPT got launched,’ she said, reported by the BBC at the Collision technology conference in Toronto.
‘The attackers are definitely using AI to launch attacks that mimic emails far…