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By Cam Sivesind
Wed | May 31, 2023 | 3:33 PM PDT

An upcoming Remote Sessions webcast featuring ethical hacker Rachel Tobac and two AI experts will tackle:

  • How attackers can effectively use ChatGPT to create incredibly sophisticated email attacks, including a live demo
  • Which vulnerabilities in generative AI models are being exploited by threat actors
  • What security leaders are doing to stop these malicious attacks on their organizations
  • Best practices for defending against the AI-created email attacks of the future

With insights from both the dark and light side of Artificial Intelligence, the webcast session, titled "ChatGPT Exposed: Protecting Your Organization Against the Dark Side of AI," will air on Thursday, June 22, from 1-2 p.m. Eastern, and will provide viewers with information they need to understand the future of cybercrime and give them tools to stop it.

The featured speakers are:

Rachel Tobac, white hat hacker and CEO, SocialProof Security

Rachel is a white hat hacker and the CEO of SocialProof Security, where she helps people and companies keep their data safe by training and pentesting them on social engineering risks. Rachel was also a winner of DEF CON's wild spectator sport, the Social Engineering Capture the Flag contest, three years in a row.

Rachel has shared her real-life social engineering stories with NPR, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, The New York Times, Business Insider, CNN, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, Forbes, and many more. In her remaining spare time, Rachel is the Chair of the Board for the nonprofit Women in Security and Privacy (WISP), where she works to advance women to lead in the fields.

She recently was featured on 60 Minutes during which she used AI to pretend to be the voice of correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi and tricked a CBS staffer into sharing her passport number, using the ruse of an upcoming trip to Ukraine for another story.

Dan Shiebler, Head of Machine Learning, Abnormal Security

As the Head of Machine Learning at Abnormal Security, Dan leads a team of 40+ detection engineers to build AI systems that fight cybercrime. They use a combination of foundational data engineering and advanced ML to detect and remediate cyberattacks. Previously, Dan managed the Web Ads Machine Learning team at Twitter, was a Staff ML Engineer at Twitter Cortex, and was a Senior Data Scientist at TrueMotion.

Dixon Styres, IT SecOps Solution Architect, CrowdStrike

Dixon Styres is an IT SecOps Solution Architect at CrowdStrike, providing partners with architectural and development API consulting. Dixon has a wealth of experience enabling customer integrations with SIEM, SOAR, and EDR platforms. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Mississippi.

The SecureWorld Remote Sessions webcast is sponsored by Abnormal Security and moderated by Tom Bechtold, Digital Event Director at SecureWorld.

"Oftentimes attackers will go after people, they don't even know who these people are, but they just know this person has a relationship to this other person," Tobac said in the 60 Minutes piece. "And they can impersonate that person enough just by changing the pitch and the modulation of their voice that [someone will say], 'I believe that's my nephew and I need to really wire that money.'"

More from the 60 Minutes report:

"Statistically, you are now more likely to be the victim of theft online than a physical break-in at home. A new FBI report reveals that Americans lost more than $10 billion last year to online scams and digital fraud. People in their 30s, who are among the most connected online, filed the most complaints."

Here's an interesting article on how OpenAI's ChatGPT models work (in general; not tied to its use for good or evil within the cybersecurity space).

This is the first of a five-part series from Ed Amoroso of TAG Cyber exploring the risks to cloud email environments. Check out the entire series.

Register for the free "ChatGPT Exposed: Protecting Your Organization Against the Dark Side of AI" webcast here. The session will be available on-demand following the original airing, as well, and viewers can qualify for 1 CPE credit.

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