Highlights:

  • SlashNext Inc., a venture-backed cybersecurity business, has released Generative HumanAI, a software solution that detects phishing emails using generative artificial intelligence.
  • SlashNext asserts that the program can identify phishing emails with 99.9% accuracy.

SlashNext Inc., a venture-backed cybersecurity business, has released Generative HumanAI, a software solution that detects phishing emails using generative artificial intelligence.

SlashNext asserts that the tool can identify phishing emails with 99.9% accuracy.

SlashNext, situated in Pleasanton, California, is supported by USD 40.5 million in investment. It provides a suite of solutions designed to safeguard staff devices from hacking attempts. SlashNext’s technologies can also detect harmful URLs and email attachments, in addition to phishing emails.

Often, phishing emails follow the same basic structure. Often, they attempt to deceive employees into clicking on a malicious link, giving important corporate information, or transferring money to an external bank account. Phishing efforts are predictable since the same techniques are regularly employed.

According to SlashNext, its new Generative HumanAI tool can analyze a phishing technique and generate hundreds of emails that employ the technique. The tool then utilizes these emails to identify hacking campaigns. Specifically, it analyzes an employee’s inbox for fraudulent correspondence by consulting its library of artificial intelligence-generated phishing emails.

Moreover, Generative HumanAI employs other approaches to detect phishing campaigns. According to SlashNext, the tool depicts the writing styles of an organization’s employees and vendors. It then evaluates fresh emails against these writing styles to identify potentially harmful messages that deviate from the established pattern. As an extra precaution, the tool examines textual characteristics, such as the tone and subject of an email, to identify indicators of criminal activity.

Concerns exist that generative AI technology, such as ChatGPT, might be used for nefarious purposes by hackers. A hacker may rapidly utilize an AI system like ChatGPT to produce many convincing phishing emails. According to SlashNext, its new solution may prevent the threat posed by hacking efforts reinforced by AI.

Patrick Harr, Chief Executive Officer at SlashNext, said, business email compromise is a “USD 43 billion problem for organizations, according to the FBI, and now with ChatGPT, the opportunities are boundless for hackers to modify code, simulate conversations and launch attacks faster than any human. The addition of Generative AI to SlashNext’s HumanAI platform represents a revolutionary breakthrough that provides the only effective prevention, by not only identifying current zero-hour BEC threats but also anticipating a massive number of future threats.”

Generative HumanAI will help the existing email security capabilities of SlashNext. Before releasing the generative AI tool, SlashNext created a system that opens links and attachments in a virtual browser before enabling employees to interact with them. The virtual browser detects malware using machine learning.

SlashNext offers its cybersecurity features in several variants. One version is compatible with the Microsoft 365 range of productivity applications. Another strategy is safeguarding staff phones from SMS phishing and malicious text messages. SlashNext also provides application programming interfaces that enable businesses to incorporate its technology into their software.