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,” says Neal Jetton, Interpol’s Singapore-based director of cybercrime.
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