/channels/taxonomy/term/12750/all en /channels/news/new-spam-machine-learning-being-used-write-human-tweets-261961 <p>Phishing messages typically get 5-10% response rates, but a new system has boosted its rate to 40%. John Seymour and Phil Tully, two data scientists from the security company ZeroFOX, presented their system SNAP_R at Black Hat, a Las Vegas conference on cyber-security, on August 4. SNAP_R uses a deep neural net to study a person's past tweets and then mimics that person's writing style using a Markov model, generating a phishing tweet. So far, there is no reason to think that criminals are using a similar system, but Seymour and Tully's work show how it might be done.</p> Fri, 05 Aug 2016 15:54:11 +0000 webfull 120197 at /channels