2 papers
cs.CR2026
Engineered Persuasion: Evaluating Personalized Pretexts in LLM-Generated Spear Phishing
Jerson Francia, Derek Hansen, Benjamin Schooley +1
Large language models can insert workplace details into phishing pretexts at low cost, but those details may either support or undermine a message's credibility. We recruited 180 U…
cs.CY2024
Assessing AI-Generated vs. Human-Authored Spear Phishing SMS Attacks: An Empirical Study
Jerson Francia, Derek Hansen, Benjamin Schooley +4
Personalized phishing is difficult to defend against because messages can be tailored to a target's work, interests, and social context. Large language models may make such tailori…