FBI and CISA: AI Will Make Midterm Scams Impossible to Spot
The federal government's new cybersecurity warning reads like it was written in Donald Trump's vocabulary — because it was. On Friday, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told election officials across America to brace for AI-powered phishing attacks ahead of the November 3 midterms, and the alert itself calls the technology "super intelligence" — the name Trump gave AI at the United Nations last month. The real surprise is not what the alert says. It is what it does not say. No named hackers. No breached systems. No malware strain. This is not a warning about an attack that happened. It is a warning that the next one will be nearly impossible to see coming — because the people sending it now write perfect English, speak your local dialect, and can clone your boss's voice. Photo: an official ballot drop box in Lane County, Oregon. The Oct 16 FBI-CISA advisory says attackers target the digital plumbing around elections — voter regis...