SINGAPORE: From perfectly spelled phishing emails to fake videos of government officials, artificial intelligence is changing the game for Interpol’s cat-and-mouse fight against cybercrime at its high-tech war rooms in Singapore.
Their foe: crime syndicates, structured like multinational firms, which are exploiting the fast-evolving technology to target individuals, states and corporations for billions of dollars.
“I consider the weaponization of AI by cybercriminals... as the biggest threat we’re seeing,” Neal Jetton, Interpol’s Singapore-based director of cybercrime, told AFP.
“They are using it in whatever way they can,” added Jetton, who is seconded to Interpol from the US Secret Service, the federal agency in charge of presidential protection.
AFP was granted a look inside the global organization’s multi-pronged cybercrime facility, where specialists pore through massive amounts of data in a bid to prevent the next big ransomware attack or impersonation scam.
