Modern social engineering has become an industrialized deception economy, where attackers use AI, automation, and optimized workflows to run profitable, large-scale campaigns. The article argues defenders should disrupt the attacker’s business model by poisoning OSINT, draining compute with defensive honeypots, and feeding false telemetry to make targeting unprofitable. #Doppel #JoshBartolomie #CISA
Keypoints
- Social engineering is now a profit-driven industrial process.
- Generative AI and automation have cut lure production costs dramatically.
- Defenders should poison OSINT to disrupt attacker reconnaissance.
- Defensive conversational honeypots can drain attacker compute resources.
- False telemetry can blind attacker optimization and reduce campaign effectiveness.
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