FBI Warns of Cybercriminals Using Generative AI to Launch Phishing Attacks

The FBI warns that threat actors are leveraging generative AI to create convincing synthetic text, images, and voice audio for social engineering, reducing effort and increasing effectiveness in fraud and extortion schemes. The advisory outlines mitigation steps, including using family passphrases, scrutinizing media for telltale artifacts, limiting personal content online, independently verifying callers and organizations, and never sending funds or sensitive information to unverified contacts.