Today, Brightside AI is pleased to announce the successful completion of a $1 million agreement with Social Links, a technology investor in OSINT infrastructure.
Brightside AI has developed a SaaS platform to help teams combat social engineering cyberattacks enabled by mass adoption of generative AI.
Human error remains the root cause of approximately 80-90% of cyberattacks, and an astonishing 96% of social engineering attacks are initiated through email channels. The advent of ChatGPT provides cybercriminals around the world with the means to enhance their phishing operations in multiple languages, making them increasingly personalized and difficult to detect by untrained observers. Masu.
social links is an OSINT platform that processes data from over 500 open sources and significantly accelerates data-centric tasks for companies involved in open data management.
As part of the partnership, Brightside will have access to the Social Links platform for the next five years to train its LLM model, an artificial intelligence-based human data search engine, and use real-world examples to make the model more effective. can do.
Andrey Suzdaltsev, CEO and co-founder of Brightside AI, elaborates:
“Phishing attacks increased by 47% in 2022 compared to 2021, and the advent of ChatGPT personalizes these threats and takes hacker capabilities to a new level. Phishing has become marketing. similar.
The more data an attacker has about a victim, the more they can target and convert fraudulent messages. Using the Social Link OSINT infrastructure, Brightside will be able to show users, with up to 100% accuracy, what threats their digital footprint poses to their security. ”
“We are excited about our strategic partnership with Social Links, which allows us to strengthen our solutions while uniquely applying our SL services (or APIs) to the cybersecurity market. You will be able to do it.”
Ivan Shkvarun, co-founder of Social Links, said:
“We are investing $1 million in Brightside’s infrastructure to provide a powerful and innovative solution to combat the problem of human error in cybersecurity.
Reducing human error, as no one can guarantee that the risk of cyberattacks is zero, especially in a scenario where new AI phishing developments are on the rise and pose a major threat to online security. is essential.
That’s why we’re not only investing in Brightside’s infrastructure, but supporting it with data extraction solutions from over 500 open sources.
We understand the importance of leveraging technology to create a safer world. ”
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