“DARPA enlists bots to fight social engineering”

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) aims to improve the automated detection of social engineering attacks with its Active Social Engineering Defense (ASED) program. This program proposes the use of bots in the discovery and recognition of social engineering campaign sources. Bots will also be used to mediate in the event that a victim is under attack. The validation and disclosure of the potential attacker’s identity and details of the attack will also be improved with the use of bots. This article further discusses the proposed capabilities and benefits of the ASED program. 

GCN reports “DARPA enlists bots to fight social engineering”