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Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook
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Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook

by Emmanuel Tsukerman
November 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
346 pages
9h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook

Twitter spear phishing bot

In this recipe, we are going to use machine learning to build a Twitter spear phishing bot. The bot will utilize artificial intelligence to mimic its targets' tweets, hence creating interesting and enticing content for its own tweets. Also, the tweets will contain embedded links, resulting in targets clicking these phishing links. Of course, we will not be utilizing this bot for malicious purpose, and our links will be dummy links. The links themselves will be obfuscated, so a target will not be able to tell what is really hidden behind them until after they click.

Experimentally, it has been shown that this form of attack has a high percentage success rate, and by simulating this form of attack, you can test and ...

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